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Colo., by Hamilton & KendrJck. 000-012 Seventeenth street; Louthan & Jackeon Book and Stationery Co.. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets; A, Series. Sixteenth and Curtis streets. TODAY'S WEATHER Showers, with varia ble winds. YESTERDAY'S WEATHER Maximum tem perature. 40; minimum temperature, 34; pre cipitation, 0.14 Inch. PORTLAXD, SUXDAY, JANUARY IS. FOR THREE STATES. The Republicans of the Pacific Northwest profesa loyalty to Theodore Roosevelt as their President and as the head of their party. They have a chance now to show it. The President Is engaged in the fight of his life. He has asked Congress for laws restrictive of the trusts. In so doing he has incurred the enmity of Wall street and the great Industrial and railroad combinations. Thesa have served notice on their servants In Con gress that there must be no trust leg islation that means anything. The Re publican leaders are disposed to fall in with the demand of the trusts and hu mlllate the President, as he was hu miliated on the subject of Cuban reci procity. Here Is a chance for Oregon, Wash ington and Iadho to hold up the Presi dent's hands. In each of these three states the Legislature is in session, with Republicans in control. Let these Leg islatures each of them pass a joint me morial to Congress,, urging the enact ment of trust legislation at this session and calling upon its own Senators and Representatives In Congress to further such legislation by all means In their power. Mention the President arid re fer to the recommendations of his mes sage. It will strengthen his courage and hold up his hands. It may Induce Congress to act, and thereby remove a peril from the campaign of 1904. Oregon expects a visit from President Roosevelt in May. What more graceful thing than now to let him know that we ) are with him in his struggle for redemp tion of his promises? Washington is committed by the . plat forms of its parties to support the anti mbnopoly programme of the President and Governor McBride. How better can its sincerity be shown than by a joint memorial to Congress? Idaho has just elected a Senator who stands with the President and Attorney General Knox in their trust programme. Why not follow that up right now with a ringing word of approval for the President's position? There is a man in the White House whose rugged vigor of thought and ac tion, on the trusts as on everything else, has inspired the confidence and trust of the people as no President has "been able to do since Abraham Lincoln. There is a battle ahead of us, with the people on one- side and these great cor porations on the other. In this battle Theodore Roosevelt has cast his lot un hesitatingly on the side of the people. But Congress hesitates. Congress should hear from the people. It will be dis heartening if this first skirmish of the campaign Is lost because Congress is in doubt as to what the people want, and especially as to what the West wants. Shall we cot speak out in un mistakable terms? Is there a single man in any of these three Legislatures who does not feel anxious to come to the President's aid at this critical time? Let us have a joint memorial from all three Legislatures, .and let it be passed unanimously! OLD FRIEND IN A NEW FACE. Mr. Edward N. Fuller, of Tacoma, puts us under heavy obligation for an important circular on behalf of the Washington State Historical Society, which includes this unequivocal para graph: The attempt to obtain a charter for a new society, which has been organized In Seattle with the name "state" In Its title can hardly Bucceed, as It is an evident attempt by a high salaried ofllclal of the State University to "crib" our title for his own benefit. Again, kindly continue this society on your exchange list, and call at room 303, City Hall, whenever j-ou may visit Tacoma. Some days have elapsed since the re ceipt of the circular, during which we have patiently waited for a counterblast from Seattle, but It has not come. No one who has had the pleasure of. fol lowing the Tacoma-Ralnier controversy can doubt that Seattle will, if given recognition from ths chair, demonstrate the priority of its State Historical So ciety over the State Historical Society of Tacoma. Let not Tacoma rest in the fancy that l can maintain itself un challenged in so inviting a field as. that of historical research. There is no de partment of human activity in which Tacoma may be discovered, but right there also Seattle can be depended, upon to disport Itself with agility and ado. The Medical Record still frrofer-ses IN self In doubt ns to whether Tacoma or Seattle developed the first case of ap pendicitis; the London Society for Psy chical Research has resarved Its de cision as to whether the Seattle or Ta coma tide flats "are the more odorous; the Rainier-Tacoma contest Is a tie at 617,000 columns cf newspaper discussion on each side; but unless we hear from Seattle ' within the customary 10 days allowed defendant In which to reply, we shall render judgment to Taccma as the home of the only true Washing-ton State Historical Society. This Is a cas-2 where we think the pot should not be divided. EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SPEAKING. The New York Evening Post quotes the example of United States Senator Vest as illustrating that there is small truth In the current laments about the decline of oratory. Mr. Vest Is a-feeble old mar, without the physical presence, the voice or the personal magnetism we associate with public eloquence, but he commanded, the fixed attention of both floor and galleries because he was full of information, because he knew how to marshal his facts, because he had something to say and knew exactly howv to say it with clearness of thought and pungency of language. It has al ways been true, and It always will be true, that such men never fall to hold an audience. Thad Stevens, who was absolute master of the House from 1861 to 1869, had the same power of Mr. Vest, and was like him without the con ventional graces of an orator. He was lame; he indulged in no finished rhetor ical art; but he was an admirable mas ter of clear speech; he had the logical keenness of a trained lawyer; he had a burning and a shining wit; his speech was full of pith and force, and he al ways avoided long speeches. Mr. Bout well, in his "Reminiscences," says that Stevens was easily the ablest mem ber of the House committee on Impeachment; that his speech was the only one that had any legal ability in Its argument, and was entirely superior to that of General Butler, who had a very high legal reputation. The late Thomas B. Reed was a pub lic speaker that always held the atten tion of his audience by the fact that he had something to say and knew how to say it so that It would touch either the head or the heart of the vast majority of his audience. Mr. Reed had no con ventional charm of the oratorical per sonality; his head was the head of a man of strength; his face was that of a man of humanity, and humor, but it was a homely face. His figure was large, tall and corpulent; his voice was of exceedingly nasal quality, and yet" he was always listened to with delight. He put no flowers of rhetoric Into his speech;" he was not a master of mag netic eloquence: there was no poetry In his speech. He did not speak long, eel dom more than thirty minutes in de bate; but he was always master of his subject, because he was full of it; he was like Stevens a man of abounding wit that scorched the opposition, and he had In addition an affluent humor that upset all the dignity of their defenses. The power of Lincoln lay entirely in thlo ability to master a subject, to hav something worth "saying and knowing how to say It. The power of Douglas was in the same line. He had an at tractive face and head, but was of very short stature, and he was utterly with out a spark of the Impassioned, thrill ing, magnetic eloquence of Clay or of the dignified, stately, finished oratory of Webster. The spectacle of Senator Vest, winning and holding his audience without any tricks of oratory, or ad vantages of voice, or rhetoric, or mag netic speech, solely because he was a well-informed man of vigorous mind, who had something to say and knew just how to say It with clearness of ar rangement and pungency of expression, ought to be worth much to rising young men who think the art of public speak ing can be taught at schools. It cannot be so taught; a public speaker is always sure of his audience, no matter what is his lack of conventional oratorical gifts, If he is full of his subject, if he has really something to say and knows how to say It with clearness of arrange ment, pungency and power. To recite a good essay is not good public speaking, and that is why so many well-written sermons fall fiat in delivery. A superior public speaker i rare, because they are born, not made. Schools cannot teach a man to think quickly and correctly on his feet; schcols cannot endow a man with either wit or humor. NOT FOR JOSEPH. Joseph, the Nez Perces, Is soon to make another pilgrimage to Washing ton to beg of the "great father" per mission to return with his few remain ing followers about 150 all told to the Wallowa Valley and spend there the remnant of his years. The persistence of Joseph in this de mand 'is remarkable, since it has been made clear to him again and again that it cannot be allowed. The lands that his tribe used to call their own have long,ago been given over to civilization s.nd Its homes. The beautiful valley for which the old chieftain 'mourns with homesick, longing does not now belong to the Government to give back to him, but to settlers who have legally ac quired It There Is an element of pathos in the story of Joseph and his people, as there is in the story of all who have had to yield to the stern decree of Nature as written in the law of the survival of the fittest. It Is said that he has grown old rapidly in the last few years. Never lo quacious, he is more taciturn than he was In his prime. To use his own words, he Is old and his spirit is broken. One might wish that he would spare himself another refusal of the plea to be. allowed to return to his old home, to live there while he lives, and there to die when he dies. Pathetic as is this plea, the Government cannot grant It. why no military; band r The turn of the year has come and gone without any apparent move toward the formation of a military band in Portland. It Is needless to enlarge upon the great significance of a musical or ganization or thi9 sort in the social and artistic life of a community. When the Tacoma band was here last Summer all Portland admired and envied It, and the general expression was to the effect that something of the kind should be had in Portland. But there the matter seems to rest. It is an open secret that the difficulty about a military band In Portland lies with the musicians themselves. The town Is large enough to afford an or ganization equal or better than Adler's. There is no doubt that the requisite support In the way of subscriptions can be secured with proper effort, pro vided the organization itself is meritorl ous enough to inspire confidence. But we have never had a leader, and the reason la very largely because our musical circles have been split up Into rival and even hostile camps. Is It not high time for the musicians of Portland to cea?e their jealousy and strife and get together upon the basis of some one of their number who is competent as director, crganlzer and manager? They have a personal Inter est In the maintenance of such an or ganization, and in addition they have the common concern of all gcod citizens in advancing everything that adds to the honor of the city and the enjoyment of its inhabitants. The Lewis and Clark Centennial should not arrive without Portland's having a fine mili tary band in full organization and per fect practice, with a reputation already made. There are only two Summers for preparation. It Is .time to start. CONDITIONS THAT SHOCK HUMAN ITY. Perhaps the most startling and In a way the most sensational ofllclal report cf the year just ended was that rendered by the Senate committee that went to Ha waii last Fall to inquire Into the social, Industrial and financial conditions ex isting in that portion of our eminent domain. While the finding of the commission on the matters upon which special Inquiry was made were all of greater or less Interest and Importance, the revelations in regard to the leper colony, Its management and the man ner in which it Is recruited excites the most profound astonishment, disgust, and even abhorrence. Thin leper settlement is located, as all the world knows, on the Island of Molo kai, and is under territorial control. At the time of its inspection by the com misspn 85S lepers were there confined, There were in the past year 144 deaths in the colony, and, shocking to relate. there were sixteen births, one-half of the children born being Illegitimate. The strangest part of the story Is that leading officials are opposed to a segre gation of the inmates, that would pre vent the birth of leprous children, and only attempt to abate or minimize the Immorality of the situation by urging that the lepers be permitted and encour aged to marry, even going so far In this direction, says the official report, "as to aid in facilitating divorces where a leprous man or woman has a wife or husband outside of the settlement, so that the husband or wife released might be legally married to a leper or Inmate of the leper settlement." There can be no sentiment, no minc ing of words in dealing with this most disgusting and abhorrent situation, The commission, in its report, speaks plainly, urging that the management of this leprosarlo be transferred to the Marine Hospital Service, with head quarters at Washington. This would mean a rigid supervision of affairs, be ginning with a segregation of the in mates and continuing with their classi fication od that no leprous children would be born, and those far advanced in the disease would not come in con tact with the suspects or with those in the earlier stages. One of the most serious problems that pertain to the government of the Ha waiian Islands is here disclosed. Com mon Intelligence, common humanity. common decency, the very voice of civ ilization itself, cries out against the continuance for another year, another month, of the shocking conditions here disclosed. A ROMAN CATHOLIC REPUBLIC. The French Parliament, by a vote of nearly two to one, has sustained the order of the Government forbidding the use of the Breton dialect in preaching and catechism In the churches in Brit tany. The French Premier defended the measure as necessary on patriotic grounds, since the government could not allow the priests of Brittany. to op pose the propagation of the national language. The French government has already suppressed the salaries of the priests who have refused to obey the order. The strength of the support given the government In this measure Is remarkable proof that while 37,000,000 out of 39,000,000 of souls In France are Catholics, nevertheless this Roman Catholic people are so devoted to the welfare of their republican government that they will not allow any perverse political education taught, directly or Indirectly, by clerical teachers. Last Summer nearly 2500 schools and seminaries controlled by religious or ders were closed by decrees of the gov ernment. By the last of August every school In France which had not willing ly acknowledged the authority of the state had been closed. No purely char itable institution. was disturbed by these governmental decrees. All the schools closed came under the 'definition of "private schools," for they were con ducted by Independent organized bod ies and capable of producing pecuniary profit. In denying the right of the state -to interfere with these schools the Concordat of 1801 and the Falloux law of 1850 were pleaded. The Concordat granted by Napoleon guaranteed to the Catholic church full exercise of its rubric, while the law of 1S50 made re liglous education Independent of state authority. The state In France maintains at its own expense 18 archbishops, 72 bishops, 33,452 priests and 6923 assistant priests, who, though appointed by the state and strictly amenable to Its laws, draw their religious authority from the Vat! can. Apart from these are the religious orders, who draw their authority from their own executives and have been known to go contrary to the rule of the Vatican. These orders, possessing 16,- 468 establishments, formed In France a sort of Imperium in imperlo. Readmit ted to France under Napoleon I, they had steadily employed their power and wealth toward political ends. They had no serious hostility toward mon archy or empire, but were bitter ene mies of the republic. In 1S99, when the smoke lifted from the Dreyfus case, It was clear that the republic had nar rowly escaped destruction. While the French general staff was doing its best to conceal the crime of its army chiefs from the eyes of France, tho religious orders, through their press and. pulpits, labored to convince the public that the army chiefs could do no wrong. When the Dreyfus case was settled the French statesmen of Republican faith asked themselves what made the army so ready to stand by the persecution of Dreyfus and shield its forgers and traitors. The answer was found in the fact that the army chiefs, who had shown themselves enemies of the re public, were all the product of clerical schools. The Jesuitical discipline of this education that the end justifies the means these officers had carried with them into their army careers. A large part of the public, receiving the same pernicious discipline from the same sources, naturally supported the army chiefs. The settlement of the Dreyfus case cleared the air so that the French people had their eyes opened to the difference between a man who cried "Hurrah for the republic!" and a man who was only willing to cry "Hurrah for France!" The Waldeck-Rousseau administra tion determined, to subvert the Influ ence of the religious orders which had attempted to. seduce -the army, and whose system of education was Inimical to democratic principles and could never turn out thoroughly republican French citizens. The associations law. which became a law on July 1, 1901, en abled the government to declare null and void without process of law any association which in character, design and Influence was deemed contrary to existing laws; to force native associa tions to recognize the state as their source of power; to force associations In ' France controlled from abroad to show cause why they should be per mitted to exist within the jurisdiction of the republic. The application of this law completely disruptefi and disorgan ized the educational system of the re ligious orders. This law was supported by all the liberal-minded Catholics In the Chamber of Deputies. The present Premier of France, who has been the executive of this associa tions law. Is a doctor by profession, who was educated by the Jesuits, and even took orders. He refuses to allow the opposition to confound the cause of the Catholic church with that of the religious orders, snme of whom have in the past been so rebellious and so In dependent of the Vatican as to obtain Its rebuke and denunciation as un worthy of the confidence of the church This associations law is no violation of the Concordat entered Into between Na poleon and Pope Pius VII, regulating the affairs between the state and the church, providing for the support of the secular clergy by civil government, for It makes no mention of the religious orders. The only resistance to the as sociations law was made in Brittany, where the strength of the opposition is neither Catholic nor religious, but purely political, as it was In 1793, when Brittany was made the focus of a Roy alist Insurrection. The trouble today in France takes place In the old Royalist strongholds of FInisterre and the Ven dee. The leaders of the opposition are not "outraged Catholics"; they are only embittered, defeated Royalists, who hate the French Republic, the dema gogues of the deluded. Ignorant popu lace of a few communities in Brittany. The associations law was enacted by the strongest, most -Intelligent and most devout Catholic nation In all Europe, in order to destroy what it has been called "a monstrous politico-religious trust, which, while monopolizing public eaucaiion, tnreatenea tne existence oi all democratic government." The pres ent determination of the French gov ernment to forbid the use of the Breton dialect in preaching and teaching is easily understood by those of us who remember what a storm was excited In Wisconsin because certain Lutheran ministers stubbornly opposed the teach ing of the English language to the children In the schools. So successful. had been this opposition that there were whole districts In Wisconsin where the growing children could not read or write English. The pope has long- ago recognized the republican principle in France, as he has in America. He knows that In a country of universal suffrage 2,000,000 of Jews, Protestants, agnostics, etc., never dictated legislation to 37,000,000 of French Catholics. The pope knows that a Frenchman may be a loyal Roman Catholic and yet love the republic so sincerely as to hate royallsm masked In the robes of monastic teachera The pope does not love Archbishop Ireland less because he thinks a public school education Is desirable to make an American boy in his widest sympathies an ardent American patriot. In France or America, the pope sees that the real safety and growth of the church de pends upon its unflinching devotion to the republic. The energetic measures so promptly taken by two national, one state and one provincial government have prac tically stamped out the foot and mouth disease that ravaged the herds of some of the New England States in the early Winter. Following the order of the Governor of Massachusetts closing the largest cattle market of that state be cause of the prevalence of this disease, the Department of Agriculture of the United States prohibited the exporta tlon of cattle from New England ports, the British government forbade the landing of cattle from New England in any of Its ports, and the Canadian government Issued orders excluding cattle that had passed through the In fected states. All of this quarantine machinery was set in motion in les3 than a week, with the result that the disease was confined within the dis trict where It first appeared. This quarantine caused much Inconvenience and considerable loss, but the measures taken were so radical that Europe, Can ada and the United States were pro tected from the spread of a disease that has . frequently, under less rigorous r gulatlons, become the scourge of a great Industry. Late advices are to the effect that the danger Is past, the dis ease having been practically stamped out, and that the shipping of livestock. from the interdicted ports will soon be aga'n in full progress. The new Governor of New Hampshire announces the failure of prohibition, and the Legislature Is expected to take steps looking to the substitution of a high-license local-option system of regu lating the liquor traffic In the Maine Legislature the attack on prohibition has been renewed with an accession of etrengtlvand Vermont soon votes upon the question of accepting a license sub stitute for the present policy. The River Thames, in England, Is frozen over for the first time in many years. In one of captain Mnrryatt s novels, "Jacob Faithful," published same siventy years ago, the Thames is described as frozen over for the first time In many years, and the sports, games and universal meirymaking on the Ice are quite humorously described. The State of Washington, remarks Mr. John L. Wilson's Post-Intelligencer, now has an opportunity to send to the Senate a maji with experience in that body. Puzzle: Who ?an be meant? Enforcing Law In Pennsylvania. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The laws against child labor ha-e been freely violated in Pennsylvania, and In a most open and cruel manner, and yet when a Wllkesbarre woman did a little of her family washing on Sunday and ven tured to hang out some of the renovated garments she was promptly arrested and fined and severely lectured by the court on the enormity of her transgression. SPIRIT OF THE NORTHWEST PRESS Never Before Was Such Universal , Sympathy Arouneil. Hood River Glacier. Mr. Tongue was a man of good ability and untiring in his work for Oregon in Congress. The death of no public man In -Oregon has ever aroused more univer sal sympathy. Wan Admired in Idaho, Boise Statesman. There are a great many people In Idaho who- will regret to hear of the sudden death of Representative Tongue of Ore gon. He was admired here and It Is felt by our people that he was one of the fore most men of our neighboring state. Knew How to Get Thlnjrs Done. Grant's Pass Courier. The death of Representative Tongue Is a misfortune deeply felt by the people of Oregon. He was and had been doing a great work In Congress for his state. Mr. Tongue's talents were solid and forceful. He was, above all. a worker, and knew how to get things done. Oregon has never had a Representative that has done more .effective work than Mr. Tongue did. Clnb Women'! Aid to 1005 Inlr. Pendleton Tribune. If the club ladles of the state inaugu rate a campaign of advertiainjr for the Lewis and Clark Centennial, there can be no doubt but that this great Fair will be come known all over the world, for It will then be backed by one of the most Influential organizations in the state or United States. When the women plan a campaign which has for Its object the good of the great commonwealth they generally accomplish something. His Lokn n Dlsnster. Newport News. With the sudden passing away of Con gressman Thomas H. Tongue, Oregon loses one of her brightest, ablest and most brilliant statesmen. A man. the loss of whose Inestimably valuable serv ices and ability Is a disaster, not only to the First Congressional DIstricObut to the whole state, and one that it can illy afford to sustain. With the mourning thousands we blend our tears. Hermann for Con;jreJis. Shaniko Leader. The death of Representative Tongue makes a vacancy in Oregon's delegation to Congress, and has caused the mention of quite a number of persons of the First District who would be available candl-' kites for the office of Representative. Among the persons prominently spoken of Is BIngcr Hermann, who has just re signed as Commissioner of the General Land Office. We think he would be a strong candidate. Dinger Hermann has before represented Oregon in Congress, and the delegation to which he belonged was reputed to be one of the ablest ever sent from Oregon, and Mr. Hermann was not counted as the least efficient of its workers. State Suffer an Irreparable Lon. Sclo News. Mr. Tongue has ably represented the FiTst Congressional District of Oregon for the past six years, and has made his im press upon National legislation since his incumbency. He was held in high esteem by his colleagues, and had the confidence. of the Administration. Oregon will suffer Irreparable loss by his death. He was chairman of the irrigation committee, which is rapidly assuming the impor tance of the committee on rivers and harbors, of which he was also a member. His place at the head of that committee meant much for the arid sections of this state. The los3 of so efficient a worker, coming Just as this time, when the state Is to send a new man to the Senate, will greatly affect Oregon's Interests at Wash ington. As Mr. Heyburn View It. Spokane Spdkcsman-Revlew. "I believe," writes W. B. Heyburn, who will soon be elected Senator from Idaho, "some further legislation Is necessary to perfect the Interstate commerce law, and the suggestions of President Roosevelt In regard thereto would seem to me to go far toward accomplishing that purpose: This expression will be read with ap proval by the voters of Idaho, as well as by the friends everywhere of the desired amendatory legislation. In view of the fact that Mr. Heyburn enjoys the reputa tion of being a man ot courage and firm adherence to his convictions, there is every assurance that his. election will place in the United States Senate an other able and reliable champion of the anti-trust policies of President Roose velt's administration. State Can Well ASord to Mourn. Bohemia Nugget. Mr. Tongue has been prominent in tho political affairs of the state for years. and in his work as Congressman he has proved himself a sincere, brilliant and able worker for his state, as well as al ways having a watchful eye for the Pa cific Coast generally. It Is only in his death that the people of Oregon, regard less of politics, fully realize his worth and "what It will take to replace him. Always sincere, always working, never lagging, he was fast making a record as a statesman seldom equaled In the West. The state can well afford to mourn the loss of a splendid gentleman, a faithful friend. While it Is regretted that he should be cut off In the very budding of his usefulness, it is a relief to those who hold .him near to heart to know that the end came without a struggle without a pain. He BeRnn at the Bottom. Brownsville Times. Durlns: the past six years Congressman Tongue has done valuable service for the state and Nation In the National con gress. He was untiring In his labors for his state and accomplished mucn. in his untimely death the state suffers a severe loss. He was known as a self- made man. Beginning at tne lowest round of the ladder, he gradually worued his way up by sheer persistence, economy and industry, until at last ne stooa wnere a great state delighted to honor him in a most responsible position of trust. That he was beloved by the people oi uregon on account of his ability and manliness Is made prominently manifest by the In numerable expressions or sorrow at nis death which came from every portion of the state. He was devoted to everything which he .undertook, which accounts ror his successful career from his boyhood days to the present time. The example of his life Is worthy of emulation. For a Two-Mile Limit Law. Condon Globe. Representative Burleigh, of Wallowa County, will Introduce a bill during the present session which Is known as the two-mile limit law. It provides that no sheep shall be herded on Government land within two miles of any dwelling or within one-half a mile of any boundary line of any deeded land or claim belonging to any person except the owner of the sheep. The bill also provides that all stock herded or grazed In any county of the state except the county in which the owner of the stock resides, shall be taxed by the county within which It Is grazed at the rate of 20 cents per head for sheep and SI per head for horses and cattle. A similar law has been In force In Idaho for a number of years, and has been sus tained by the courts of that state. The yheepmen of Eastern Oregon will put up a string fight against the passage of this bill, It means the practical extermina tion or tne sheep industry- In Oregon. The bill Is likely to cause plenty of trou ble In the Legislature, and will put some of the Legislators from stock counties In an embarrassing position. They will be between the devil and the deep blue sea, and no matter which way they vote they will be sure to get "ctfsstd" roundly by a goodly number of their constituents. FIVE-MINUTE BOOK TALKS. Xo. IT Poems by Charles Kln-galey. Fresh from reading "The Saint's Trag edy," one wonders why it is not more read and qnoted. 'TIs an after thought how much good stuff Is crowded out by the pressure of what Is not half so good. The subject of that dramatic poem is ab sorbing to the religious mind, and his torically It presents a view of tumultuous times the conflict of interests embodied in the unscrupulous violence of contend ing barons and sovereigns, tne abject mis ery and Ignorance of the general popula tion, of whom a few individuals were struggling, more or less blindly and at random, for rights now no longer con tested; and the church claiming, in the name of God, supremacy over soul, body and property, and using superstition as means of domination, or Indifferent and careless in spiritual matters, and taking part, as prompted by the worldly and selfish ambition of some of its dignitaries, in the factions and opressions which char acterized the 13th century. In this chaotic condition of society, the great problems of life and destiny pressed with gainful force on the consciences of individuals who, In their zeal to be right, were apt to be tyrannical and unreasonable In 'the exercise of their priestly power, or ascetic and mortified In obedience to thnlr su periors In the administration of church discipline and the enforcement of their view of what Its doctrines imposed. Here, then. is. material for the dramatic noet to delineate the struggle of Innoceiu. so cial Instincts against a mistaken view of religion; that In the soul of the priest be tween the natural sympathies of his man hood and his convictions as to the duties of his office: and for lively pictures of the exterior varied life of the times. The plot turns on the process of thought and emo tion which made Elizabeth, daughter of the King; of Hunsary. a heroine in her self-mortification a wife and mother who, under the Instructions and personal vio lence of her religious adviser, does her utmost to crush her dearest sensibilities, and Is canonized as a saint after her pre mature death. Such a subject commended Itself to the earnest and sympathetic nature of Charles Klngsley, who found in monkish -s?cords and other sources of Information and suggestion, what he needed for a task grateful to his tastes and disposition. His poem, which appeared in the memorable year 1848, when he was 29 year3 old, was successful; his vivid and fervid imagina tion and scholarly capacity were adequate to the production of a drama which, as an expression of his genius and learning, constituted the virtual beginning of a lit erary career of singular distinction, even as measured with that of the great im aginative writers of the period in which he worked. Klngsley died in 1S75. In his later years he was les3 conspicuous, though, if possi ble, more devoted as a philanthropist and social reformer, than In his earlier life, .and. as a matter of course, less open to damaging criticism. Become conventional in his work of pen and speech, increasing ly conservative, as it would seem, in his views, he dabbled in science for recrea tion, and. as canon of Chester, and after wards of Westminster, was less marked as a man than when, simply rector ot the tinv village of Eversley. In Hampshire, he commanded the attention of the civ ilized world. Non could know Klngsley without lovinc- the most amiable and com municative of men. He was always ready tn heln and encourage intellectual labor. high thinking and devout and earnest liv ing, and his memory Is cnensnea wun gratitude and love. "The Saint's Tragedy" is the only poem of quite considerable length in the manual small nnd nominal In price which con tains thp collected Doems of "Charles Klngsley. from those of his early life to the last, written In the Rocky Mountains, In June. 1874. I quote from it sparingly; of such tasty bait there need hot be much. In her childhood, sitting in the doorway of a closed chapel in the Wartburg, Eliza beth thus addresses her nurse, in words prophetic of her after-life: I am most friendless. The Landgravine and Agnes you see them Begrudge the food I eat, and call me friend Of knaves nnd sewing-maids; the burly knights Freeze me with cold blue eyes; no saucy page But points and whispers, "There goes our pet Would but her salntshlp leave her gold behind, i xv.' -ivn herself her furlough." Save me! save me! All here are ghastly dreams; dead masks ot stone. And you and I, and Guta, onlyllve; Your eyes alone have souls. I shall go mad! Betrothed In childhood to Lewis, land grave of Thurlngia, son of Sophia and lister of Agnes, while still a young girl she is married to him. After the wed ding ceremony she reeflcts as follows, monks chanting without: Here, Guta. take those monks a fee Tell them I thank them bid them pray for me. I am half-mazed with trembling Joy within. And noisy wassail round. 'TIs well, for else The specter of my duties and my dangers Would whelm my heart with terror. Ah! poor self! Thou took'st this for the term and bourne of troubles And now 'tis here, thou findest It the gate Of new sin-cursed Infinities of labor, "Where thou must do. or die! The final scenes In Elizabeth's life are heartrending in their pathos. She dies on straw Int hut, where she has tended a leprous boy. The severity of Conrad, her priestly adviser, Is Inflexible, even when she Implores him not to let the people pro fane her corpse for relics. But note how the "art of the poet vindicates the sover eign triumph of womanly affeqtlon at the supreme moment: Oh, my God! I had stripped myself of all but modesty! Dost thou claim yet that victim? Be It so. Now take me home! I have no more to give thee! So weak and yet no pain why, now nought alls me! How dim the lights burn! Here Where are you, children? Alas! I had7 forgotten Now I must sleep for ere the sun shall rise, I must be gone upon a long, long Journey To him I love. . There are evidences In the subjects of Kingsley's poems of his intense love of open-air sports. He was himself athletic. as who could forget that saw him leap a fence or climb the rugced heights of a Welsh hill? The reader may find a rem iniscence of the mood in which "The Saint's Tragedy" was composed In "Saint Maura, A. D. 301." "Poems Connected With 1S4S-49" are radical, as their title suggests, throbbing with the sense of hu man brotherhood. Everybody remembers "The Sands of Dec" and "The Three Fish ers." Reading "The Day' of the Lord" calls to mind a later production known to all Americans, and written, as was this, when stirring history was in the making: The day of the Lord Is at hand, at hand; Its storms roll up the sky; The nations sleep starving on heaps of gold; AH dreamers toss and sigh: The night Is darkest before the morn; ! When the pain Is sorest the child Is born. And the day ot the Lord at hand. Gather you, gather you. angels of God Freedom, and Mercy, and Truth; Come! for the earth Is grown coward and old. Come down, and renew us her youth. Wisdom. Self-Sacrifice. Daring and Love, Haste to the battle-field, stoop from above. To the day of the Lord at hand. Gather you. gather you, hounds of hell Famine, and Plague, and Wj&r; Idleness. Bigotry. Cant and Misrule, Gather, and fall In the snare! Hireling and Mammonlte, Bigot and Knave. Crawl to the battle-field, sneak to your grave, In the day of the Lord at hand. Who would sit down and sigh for a lost age of gold. While the Lord of all ages Is here? True hearts will leap up at the trumpet of God, And those who can suffer can dare. Each old age of gold was an Iron age. too, And the meekest of saints may find stern work to do. In the day of the Lord at hand. HENRY G. TAYLOR. NOTE AND COMMENT. The Portland bride Is always well- groomed. One of the ways to spoil a good cook Is to marry her. Apostle Smoot seems finally to have got his toga on strajght; The trouble with the idle rumor Is that it usually Isn't idle. Some poets are born, but it takes them a fearfully long time to die. The anti-trust bllis do not pass at Washington, but time does. Some of these days the Tlllmans will run up against the wrong man. The best part of some sermons are the conclusions reaches by the preachers. The Hague Tribunal made a lucky escape when it was not called on to umpire the baseball war. The newspapers continue to mention the woman who was speechless with rage, but we have yet to see her. Philadelphia has gratified Andrew Car negie by taking another million and a half of the filthy stuff off his hands. A bill has been Introduced in the Cali fornia Legislature to abolish the use of the strait-jacket In San Quentin prison. Its use on crooked people has apparently not accomplished the good hoped for. The St. Louis Exposition announces parenthetically that It is without an offi cial emblem. Merely as a suggestion how would thi3 do: David R. Francis floating on a raft In a cornplt filled with Budwelser. David B. HIU wants patent medicine makers to quit using his portrait for ad vertising purposes. This is an entirely reasonable demand. The patent medicine people, remarks the Chicago Record Herald, as well as others, should refrain from doing violence to the dead. The closing of the Maison Doree has re vived many stories of the eating In tho good old times. An Englishman writing from France In 1S30 gives this Instance ot appetite coming with the eating: "At my left at dinner today sat a very pretty young woman, opposite to her a young fellow, her cousin or lover. I heard them speak of their dejeuner a la fourchette (a meat breakfast). Yet, to my amazement, this delicate young person ate soup, beef, pata of I know not what, but it was said to be of brains, and they pronounced it excellent. A mackerel followed, then roast fowl, cresses, salad, kidneys, au vln de champagne, green peas, with sugar, Chevreull. which the waiter offered to swear before a magistrate was real veni son. To this mess the young woman added a quantity of new cheese thickly spread upon bread, filling up the time be tween each of the removes by scooping out the quarter of a very large melon; cherries, strawberries, biscuits (sponge cakes), each enough for an English wo man's dinner, and then coffee terminated the meal, to which, between her and her friend, they had only half a bottle of wine at 12 sous, but which they diluted with (In defiance of Abernethy's rule) at least a gallon of water. Of everything I have mentioned the woman, had two thirds. 'Repletion must have followed.' you will say. No such matter, iney uau. scarcely washed their ungers wne u counle started up and took their places in a quadrille set Just formed." -cvnm nn occasional contributor we ac knowledge the receipt of this with grati tude: I was sitting in my study One evening, rather late "Writing up a paper For the Saturday night's debate. Without, the storm was raging. All within was warm and bright; I had pity. In my heart, for thosa Who were out on sucn a nlSht. f After my paper was finished I sat up to the blaze. And nieasant memories filled my thoughts As I looked with steady gaze. And as the flames leaped higher. And up the chimney flew I sat and smoke, and dozed. In turns As sleepier I grew. When, hark! what was that grating noise Which fell upon my ear? I listened: there It was again. And It smote my heart with fear: For at once there arose a suspicion Within my troubled brain. It was one of those desperate burglars At his lawless work again. I could hear the stealthy footsteps As he walked across tho floor. And I knew at any moment He might enter my study door. So I called together my scattered wits To form a plan of attack. The mere suggestion of such an act Made the cold shivers run down my bacic But immediately after this fear there cam Fresh courage to my heart, As I thought of the morning paper In which I would form a part. I could see the heading- of the pago . In letters large and bright. Brave deed of a prominent cltlzea Who captured a burglar last night. My heart beat high with pleasure. And my brain became more clear; I reached for my revolver. Which happened to be lying near. As I seized It with nervous fingers And crept toward the door, I thought to myself. "Tou rascal. TTour burglary days will soon be o'er.' Then I wiped the perspiration From oft my heated brow. For I knew that In coolness of actloa Depended my safety now; And I cautiously turned the handle, Expecting. I kne not what; When suddenly there sprang from the tabla Our neighbor's big black cat. Not a Political QucMtion. Omaha World-Herald. The future of the negro should not ba made to revolve upon a political axis. It should rest upon some firmer founda tion. The race problem Is before us and it wjll never be solved In a way creditable to the Intelligence of the" people of this country su long as the men of one sec tion complain because the men of another section give open expression to the preju dice which the men of all sections possess. Plaint of the Pessimist. Ben King. Nothing to do but work. Nothing to eat but food; Nothing to wear but clothes. To keep us from going nude. Nothing to breathe but air. Quick as a flash 'tis gone; Nowhere to fall but off. Nowhere to stand but on. Nothing to sing but songs. Ah. well! Alas! Alack! Nowhere to go but out. Nowhere to come but back. Nothing to read hut words. Nothing- to cast but votes; Nothing to hear but sounds. Nothing to sail but boats. Nothing to comb but hair. Nowhere to sleep but in bed; Nothing to weep but tears. Nothing to bury but dead. Nothing to see but sights. Nothing to quench but thirst; Nothing to have but what we've got Thus through life we're cursed. Nothing to strike but a gait Everything moves that goes; Nothing at all but common sensa Can evpr wUhstand these wow,