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Elizabethan drama. The age we have
come upon Is essentially one of criti
cism. Colossal forms of religious, so
cial and governmental life sprang Into
being In the generations past and now
we are at work on their classification.
The poets and painters and prophets
are dead; the historians and critics are
busy all about us. In our public life
the pioneer of original Initiative and
dauntless port ha3 gone, and fn his
stead we have a multitude of finicky
people trying to imitate or describe or
censure what the pioneer achieved.
The courts construe Marshall; the prel
ates expound the apostles and fathers;
the platform appeals to Washington
and Jefferson. Jackson and Lincoln.
Where Grant struck blows Miles sits
and whines. Where Jefferson bought
an empire his followers split hairs over
his own impressions of the act. The
age of creation has gone; the age of
criticism is here.
Though every epoch may not have Its
own peculiar creed, but one inherited
from a more fertile hour, yet every
epoch has its own beliefs. In these de
generate days we modify the old creeds
to ult our needs and call them the
same. A thousand conflicting sects
and three grand opposing divisions
Greek, Roman and Teutonic profess
the custody of the true message of
Jesus. No political group in the United
States Is too poor to claim Its intellect
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CREEDS XS ECLIPSE.
While the General Assembly shows
commendable spirit and facility In deal
t Ing with the so-called new confession of
faith, It is most transparently evident
that the proceedings in ratification are
purely perfunctory. This crop of prog
ress was really sown and harvested
about ten years ago, and the assembly
Is merely certifying the returns after
the nominee has been elected, qualified
and inducted Into office. The Presbyte
rians are busy with other things now.
They want to forget creeds, seminary
wrangles and heresy trials "as fast as
they can.
This Is the uniform mood of the re
ligious world. Tour foreign mission sec
retary talks today about hospitals and
schools, and is readily pardoned If, in
ihls anxiety for uplifting the heathens'
moral and material condition, he neg
lects the old word about their dying
daily for the want of the vicarious
atonement. Religious endeavor takes
ftiifferent forms at different times, and
' this is one of the times when character
is accentuated rather than creed. What
' a man professes Is not considered more
vital than what he does, more neces-
eary than what he Is. It Is a reassuring
sign of the tunes.
Nor Is the eclipse of creeds confined
to the religious world. It prevails In
politics and philosophy. Our National
nlatforms are dragnets of platitudes
(and promises on every conceivable prob
, lem In government There Is very little
5 difference between the tariff-reform
' cold-standard Democrat and the gold
tBtandard tariff-reform Republican. That
' is, there Is little difference in creed,
t though each may be on fire with zeal for
his own party and reprobation of the
j other. The passion for doctrine as the
toe-all and end-all of politics has abated.
i We do not take our platforms so serl
rously. We are interested in men more
than In Issues, and especially In under-
'takings. The man who can get some
1 thing done for the advancement of his
j church, his party and his state Is the
real thing. What his views are does
not greatly matter.
It is so In philosophy. We have en
tered upon an era of Investigation, of
collecting phenomena and comparing
'Impressions. The old day of prophetic
Dromulgatlon. exemplified in such
names as Kant, Sir William Hamilton,
'Hegel, Herbert Spencer Darwin even
(is gone. We have ceased to fight for
i evolution, or against lt but content our
selves with Its calm, light-hearted con
templatlon. The Emerson centenary
tflnds us In a temper not Irritable over
ihls Imperfections or enthusiastic in ad
herence. Undiscovered facts about him
,or relics of his life are of much more
concern than the accuracy of his phll
osophy or the truth of his message; and
if In a general way we discuss his
teaching, It Is rather to dellmlnate and
estimate than to urge or condemn. It
is Important to know what philosophers
have taught and to apprehend their
etrong and weak points, but it would
not be good form at present to essay
i the role of Sir -Galahad In their behalf.
We are wont to say that no social or
ganization,, political, religious or phllo
sophlc, can hope for greatness or per-
, rnanence unless It is bottomed on some
creed. There has to be some fabric of
belief, forged In the white heat of trial,
to which devotees cling with passionate
fondness. There Is the Judaic faith.
only purified and revitalized by Klshl
nef and resultant protests; there Is the
Republican party, solidified by the Civil
War; there is the Spencerlan philoso
phy, enshrined in gifted and steadfast
souls through fifty years of persecu
tlon. But this truth needs one very
important qualification. The social or
ganism, like the solar system In Its
sight through space, like the year
through its recurrent seasons, passes
through belts of variant mood. The
creed comes In its own time out of the
throes that give It birth, and its force
eurvlves through very momentum long
after the logic of its formulas has gone
into the urns of oblivion. Denomina
tions rally round anachronistic pro
tests, and political parties thrive on the
delusion that they are still bearing the
sacred ark of corn-law repeal, or the
rights' reserved to the states, or the
perpetuation of the Union. Vestiges alL
they are, surviving in the social frame,
like the wisdom tooth or the buttons on
the back of your coat For them, as
for symbols of what they hold dear.
men will fight but they are recognized
as not the essential thing.
The age is one of reflection, and not
of creation. The great creed goes its
way with the National epic or the
birth of a new people, or the golden age
pf Grecian sculpture or Italian art or
according to its fancy the chances for a
new religion or a new creed grow less
and less. Education- reduces them, for
Ignorance Is a powerful promotive of
the sublime achievement in religion,
politics or art Too often, alas! the
Confession or the Declaration Is born
of blind assurance and fattened upon
credulity. What would the acute and
conscientious critic have left to Homer
of his epics, to' Herodotus of his his
tory? How would the Bible have 'fared,
Indeed If expurgated at the German
universities, and would Shakespeare
have been at all worth while if noth
ing not gramatlcally, geographically,
historically and scientifically correct
had been allowed to pass the proofread
er? It Is difficult to see, therefore, any
ground to hope for a new creed that
shall satisfy the honest soul any more
nearly than the patched affairs we sub
scribe to now. It will be time to look
around for one when writing rises to
the level of "Hamlet" and Mlchaelan
gelo Is duplicated at Chicago.
rank passages, like those spoken by
Falstaff and his boon companions,
make the Emersonian flesh fairly
creep. Shakespeare was a full man of
the world as well as poet He was man
ager Of a theater, actor, poet social
wit and courtier; a man of Infinite
mental and moral variety. He did many
things and relished much company
that Emerson would not' have done
and could not have enjoyed, so Emer
son shuddered as he read and distrust
ed Shakespeare. He felt his immense
genius, and yet he was evidently fret
ted with the suspicion, if not absolute
conviction, that Shakespeare led a
comparatively vulgar life. He distrust
ed Shakespeare because the great
dramatist seemed to him to rest with
"the symbol, with the festal beauty of
the world," and did not explore the
essence of things and ask, "Whence,
what and whither?" Shakespeare,
Emerson says, was not wise for him
self; he did not lead a beautiful life,
but ate, drank and reveled and affili
ated with all manner of persons and
quaffed the cup of life with gusto and
relish. Emerson did not understand
Shakespeare's limitations, because
Shakespeare was a poet, a man of
Inspiring imagination and color,
throbbing with passion; he was not a
priest at all, while Emerson was a cross
between a. poet and a priest If Shakes
peare had been all that Emerson wished
him to be, he would have been far less
of a poet and far more of a mystic or
prophet
Emerson's limitations, are further
shown when he says that Shelley Is
never a poet, though he Is always poet
ical In mind, and when he defines Byron
as a man "who had nothing to say, but
said it magnificently." This is a clever
epigram, but it Is at best but a half
truth, for Byron, as a descriptive poet
has left behind him a mass of most ex
quisitely beautiful w6rk which is sure
to keep him In the first rank of Eng
lish poets so long as England has a
literature. Emerson's test of poetry Is
not a true one; that Is, it is not a
complete test,- since he finds fault with
ltual genius, who never ceased to ex
hort his fellow-countrymen to make
America famous for some nobler Na
tional traits than "avarice and sensual
ity." Emerson was" a man of thrift
who practiced the homely virtues he
preached in his "Conduct of Life" as
carefully and far more religiously than
did Franklin; but, like Franklin, Emer
son despised a man who became a mill
ionaire by playing bandit In the world
of business or the world of politics;
wealth was to be respected If uprightly
won and virtuously employed, not oth
erwise. Emerson obtains honors at his
country's hands after death, while
Rockefeller, In spite of his mountain of
gold, chjefly built out of plunder; ob
tains no respect or reverence in -lire
save what money can buy, and will get
none after death, not even from the
hungry pack of his heirs, who will begin
to fight over the division of hl3 millions
as soon as his will has been made
public
or as good as elsewhere. The Seet
here Is very small, considering the sfcse-
of the city and popularity of the sport
"A SHAME OP CHRISTENDOM."
Every one who possesses an ordinary
sense of justice and who has heard or
read the presentment of facts In. regard
to the Russian Jew and his environ
ment by Dr. Stephen 8. Wise must feel
for this cruelly oppressed people an up
rising of sympathy mingled with Indig
nation against their cool, calculating,
persistent persecutor, the government
of Imperial Russia. The question to en
lightened Americans is not one of affin
ity for the Russian Jews. These people,
by their environment of a thousand
years, by their customs and language,
are alien to us, and between them and
American citizens there is little in com
mon beyond the broad ground where
justice and humanity meet and Inter
change sentiments of universal broth
erhood. The Russian Jew, as we see
him today, cowering under the Iron rule
of a despotic government the corner
stone of whose despotism Is an Intol
erant, un-Christlan, cruel creed, mis
called religion, Is a human being who
claims the pity of the enlightened na
tions, and who receives It without stint.
Byron's art because it did not seem in- albeit no nation may care to make place
stinct witn any aennite moral purpose. ror the ODDressed multitude that he
THE MEN WHO "DO THIKGS.
Schwab's generosity has taken a much
more practical turn than that of Car
negie. That of the latter expressed It
self In the gift of libraries; that of the
former has taken the shape of an in
dustrial school at Homestead, Pa., the
seat of the most magnificent steel In
dustry In the world. This school offers
to every child In the borough-"an op
portunity to learn atrade before gradu
ating from the High School" a long
felt want Indeed.
Nothing could be more sensible or
practical than this Idea worked to its
sequence. It fits admirably a time
wherein the tendency Is to overcrowd
the professions, and encourages the
broader and better trend toward indus
trialism of the type wherein, the hand
13 trained to follow the brain. There
are still all too many parents who are
ambitious to push their children into
the clerical and professional vocations,
but these are giving place yearly to
those who see In "captains of Industry"
men whom they would have their sons
emulate. The-men who "do things" are
those who are prominent in the world's
view today. The ambitious youth
takes for his model the men of com
merce and of Industrial achievement,
and It Is to help him work out his model
that states and Individuals are found
ing and equipping Industrial schools.
The awakened Industrial ambition
means much to the Nation and for men.
The library scheme Is useful In Its
way. It seeks to make the leisure of
the working community profitable. The
Industrial school seeks to make the
hours of labor prpfltable both to the
workingman and the capitalist Time
was when men "picked up" their trades
and blundered through life with un
skillful hands. But the time Is com
ingand, indeed, now is when boys
must learn how to use their hands if
they would, as men, succeed In Indus
trial life.
mean War in 1854. When Qeen Vic
toria ascended, the throne the debt was
S853.O80.W0. Since then up to the out
break of the South African War, in con
sequence of the Crimean War, the. ter
rible Irish famine of 1847, the purchase
of the telegraphs In 188-9, the purchase
of the Suez Canal shares In 1S76, and
sundry and various small wars, a total
of 177,000,000 was added to the debt
Allowing for the 165,000,000 added to
the debt by the South African War,
there has been a net reduction since
1837 of 53,000,000, which does not In
clude the Suez Canal shares, valued at
28,000,000, which were purchased for
4,000,000. Moreover, a lowering In the
rate of Interest has lightened the an
nual charges of the debt by 4,000,000
since 1869. Empire comes high, but we
must have It
There 13 a movement among the work
ing classes In England to persuade Par
liament to pay wages to Its members.
The worklngmen now assess themselves
to pay labor union members, and the
Irish National League raises funds to
pay wages to those of the Irish mem
bers who cannot afford to serve with
out remuneration. Great Britain's pres
ent system of nonpayment of wages to
her members of Parliament is a mis
take, for It practically debars a work
lngman from a candidacy, for he can
not afford the necessary election ex
penses, and he cannot afford to occupy
his seat without a salary. Eight mil
lions or more of English workmen have
not more than a dozen representatives,
while the land-owning Interest has some
200 qr more representatives. Our plan,
which pays the public servant fair
wages, and yet expects him to serve us
faithfully, not because his stipend is
large, but because he is a faithful
soldier of the state. Is .sound, and will
succeed wherever free government Is
really prized by the people. The price
of free government Is patriotic readi
ness on the part of the best citizens to
render their best service with honor
and. without regard to profit
THE LIMITATIONS OP EMERSON'.
Matthew Arnold, the great English
critical essayist, was a warm admirer
of Emerson, but he frankly told his
American audiences that the New Eng
land sage was primarily a' poet of fine
genius, not a philosopher; that his
poetry was the best that had been
written In America, and would be his
permanent mark In our enduring lit
erature. Emerson himself, as Trow
bridge tells us in his "Reminiscences"
In the Atlantic Monthly, always told
his intimate friends that he believed his
true place in literature was that of a
poet; that if he had been born heir to
a good income he would have written
nothing but poetry; that the larger part
of his prose lectures were "pot-boilers."
Emerson said that he knew he lacked
the poet's fine ear for the melodious
m'echanlsm of. verse, but he still felt
that he had the poetic Imagination and
poetic temperament His best prose
passes often Into high poetry, and even
poetical form. These fine lines were
originally written In prose:
I heard, or seemed to bear, the chiding sea
Bay, "Pilgrim, why so late and slow to comer'
Emerson said of poetry that "it re
quires a splendor of expression which
carries with it the proof of great
thoughts," and said of himself In 1835
T am born a poet, of low class, without
doubt, yet a poet It Is my nature and
my vocation. My singing, to be sure, is
very husky and for the most part In
prose." Arnold was correct wnen ne in
slsted that so far as Emerson had
genius It was the genius of a poet rather
than of a philosopher. He can hardly
be called a philosopher In. any exact
sense. So far as Emerson had. any
philosophy It was expressed in his as
sent to Arnold's own creed, which de
manded that a true civilization should
be one of "sweetness and light" Em
erson was a better exponent pf Arnold's
creed than Arnold himself, for Emerson
had a fine sense of humor, a keen, pene
tratlng Yankee wit, while Arnold was
utterly without humor. Lacking Emer
son's fine sense of humor, Arnold was
Emerson turned Anglomanlac; he was
Emerson educated in an atmosphere of
insular egotism. Emerson had sat at
the feet pf Dr. Channing, and his so-
called philosophy was but the irrepres
sible evolution of a higher and nobler
faith than that of hl3 fathers. Emer
son, before he left the Unitarian pul
pit, was a man of rare moral courage,
who boldly uttered In a fine but keen,
penetrating voice what Channing spoke
in angelic whispers and lesser preach
ers muttered in hesitating tones. The
philosophy of Arnold and Emerson was
the natural reaction from Puritan as
ceticism in the pulpit It did not re
quire high moral and spiritual genius
to apprehend It, but It did require high
moral courage to announce It When
Emerson delivered his famous Phi Beta
Kappa address in 1838, Edward Everett,
at the commencement dinner, quoted a
line from Virgil describing it "as three
parts fire, three parts thirsty cloud.
while all the rest was wind."
Arnold was naturally an admirer of
Emerson; he was, like Emerson, the
son of an orthodox clergyman, and.
like him, was a man of the moral pur
pose and aspiration of a preacher
joined to a fine poetic imagination; for.
after Tennyson, Arnold was the finest
poet of the Victorian age. Arnold was
a masterly writer of English prose as
well as poetry, and his judgment of Em
erson may he accepted as sound that
his permanent fame lies with his
poetry rather than with his so-called
essays and prose meditations; that he
was a born poet rather than preacher
or teacher; that he has written the best
poetry that has yet been produced in
America. Arnold appreciated and ad
mired Emerson as a man of serene
beauty of life and soul; a man who
rendered great spiritual service to our
day and generation; and yet there Is
danger that Emerson will be oyer
praised by those who forget that It
Is not by being kept out of the world
that the forces of life are tested. Em
erson was the genius of quiet, spiritual
culture rather than the genius of ac
tion; he was a solitary thinker, not a
powerful preacher and ubiquitous
thinker, hero and martyr like Theodore
Parker or Phillips Brooks. The tem
peramental defect of Emerson was
that he shrank instinctively from all
practical, pugnacious experiences In
life that were vexatious or repulsive
to hlrnTNKe sometimes seems almost to
shudder over Shakespeare, because his
This standard would make Wordsworth
a greater poet than Shakespeare, for
Wordsworth has always something to
say and was always didactic; but this
fact does not make him a greater poet
than Byron or Burns, who sang not
because they thought it was right or
because they thought it was their duty,
but because they must sing, and, for this
reason and chiefly for this reason, their
songs to the common air continue to
make their way. The enduring test of a
poet Is not his didactic quality; it Is his
success in endowing his own and suc
ceeding generations with fresh modes
of expression. Shakespeare surpasses
all poets in this respect Milton comes
next, and, after Milton, Byron and Cole
ridge are the most fertile. Matthew
Arnold, a far sounder literary critic
than Emerson, places Byron at the head
of all the poets of the nineteenth cen
tury because of his "surpassing sincer
ity and strength." Emerson's estimate
of Shakespeare, of Shelley and Byron
Indicate the limitations of his critical
powers. Arnold fixed his true place In
literature; he was essentially a poet not
a philosopher, and who, as a poet
touched our highest National mark of
production.
NO PCDLIO HONORS FOR PIRATES.
The Rev. Dr. W. S. Rainsford, of St
George's Church, New York City, re
cently preached a sermon on "Money."
Quoting the common remark, "Nothing
counts here but money," he said, that It
Is not true; that the things we cannot
do without cannot be bought with
money friendship, for example. Dr.
Rainsford further said:
The longer I see the superficial life which
often goes with the possession of large sums
of money the more I despise such a life. The
people who make calls with you and go to the
opera, with you may not be your friends at all.
The more people seek to acquire and spend
money the less real friendship are they capable
of. Money Is not the only thing which goes.
There Is much mushroom greatness and un
healthy growth In the social life of this city,
but there is not a single monument In this city
to a man of money. Such men do sot make a
mark, although they do make a splurge.
Dr. Rainsford is right The monu
ments that grateful states and great
cities erect are not put up in honor of
multi-millionaires. John D. Rockefeller
is beyond doubt the richest man In the
world of civilization and commerce.
His wealth 13 growing so fast that the
increase alone within ten years will
reach a billion of dollars. His aggre
gate Income for several years has been
estimated at $75,000,000. His 560,000,000
of Standard Oil stock Is worth nearly
$500,000,000 and brings him In about
$40,000,000 annually; his Investments In
railroads, mines, etc., yield him some
$20,000,000, while his Income from real
estate exceeds $1,000,000 a year. This Is
Mr. Rockefeller's wealth. Now let any
body 'who has read Ida M. Tarbell's
wonderful story of "The Standard Oil
Conspiracy," that has been running for
several months in McClure's Magazine,
a story most ably set forth and com
pletely fortified by Its array of notorious
facts, ask himself if ne believes there Is
any danger that elthersthe country, the
state or the city of sir. Rockefeller
will be likely to erect any monument
to his memory.
Ida M. Tarbell Is far more likely to
obtain a monument for the service she
has done the cause of public 'morality
In telling the story of the Rockefeller
conspiracy, without fear or favor, than
Rockefeller Is to be honored by an ad
miring country for his shrewdness In
holding up and picking the pockets de
liberately of the small oil men of every
dollar they contained. Rockefeller Is
morally a great bandit In business, and
If he had had his deserts would have
been planted deep In the penitentiary
years ago. The lightest mark that a
man can make on the sands of time is
to die a multl-mllllonalre. He cannot
at death take his money away with
him; if he takes anything away with
him a death. It Is that moral and spir
itual conquest over our worst passions
and basest desires we call character; he
cannot take his money with him if he
has any at death; he can take his char
acter with him if he has any at death.
It is easjr to see that If the Christian
scheme o salvation be sound, rich Mr.
Rockefeller may feel dismally poor In
the next world, for he will not have any
treasure laid up In heaven. Giving
churches and colleges and heathen mis
sions a portion of his Ill-gotten wealth
will not sanctify the Standard Oil con
spiracy In face of the. terrible indict
ment of Rockefeller that has been writ
ten' In the Indelible Ink of truth by that
exceedingly able woman, Ida M. Tar
bell. Tomorrow the Intellectual and spirit
ual civilization of America, without dis
tinction of religious creed, will lift Its
voice In words of memorial praise and
honor of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Why?
Not because he was a multl-mllllonalre.
but because he was a man of rare splr-
represents without Its own borders.
Is this pity, then, to be merely wasted
sentiment, an Impatient something
which has performed its part when It
turns shudderingly from the recital of
the cruelties under which these people
writhe through the years, and against
which they cry out only when unspeak
able atrocity Is added to the regular
load which they are compelled by the
government to bear? Is civilization
limited in its measures of relief on
these wretched, persecuted millions to
the giving of alms In an unusual stress
of brutality, or to the unsatisfactory at
tempt to colonize these people In new
and strange lands? Is the Russian con
science so incrusted in miscalled Chris
tian creed, so benumbed by the re
morseless grip of a cruel priesthood,
that it is impossible to arouse It? Is
civilization, as represented by the na
tions of Christendom, powerless to say
to the successor of Ivan the Terrible
upon the throne of Russia, "Thus far
and no farther," and make good the
Interdiction conveyed by these words
against the oppression under which
6,000,000 Jews In Russia writhe?
What 13 It that we hear now and
again about this young monarch, the
Czar of all the Russias? A grandson of
kindly, humane King Christian of Den
mark, allied by marriage to the royal
families of England, Germany and
Italy, an advocate of universal peace
how t Is It possible to reconcile these
facts with the other fact that he looks
coldly on while 6,000,000 of his subjects
are persistently, systematically perse
cuted and robbed, and not Infrequently
numbers of them are set upon with dire
cruelties the least atrocious of which Is
murder? Perhaps the nations of Christ
endom, if they were to unite in a strong
and earnest plea for these people, In the
simple name of justice, might receive
respectful audience at St Petersburg.
This is doubtful, however, since In Rus
sia it is the church against the Jew, and
the orthodox church Is the most potent
well-Intrenched, despotic power In the
empire. This is the barrier behind
which atrocity works against the Jew
In Russia, unchallenged by the civilized
forces of the empire. A fortress Im
pregnable to reason, manned by cruelty,
guarded at every approach by unre
lenting despotism, It can only be Invested
by processes of growth which have
slowly but surely moved humanity on
ward and upward through the ages,
leaving yet some of the advance posts
of cruelty to be taken.
General Benjamin Viljoen, ex-Asslst-
ant Commandant-General of the burgh
er forces In the Boer War, should be,
and no doubt Is, well qualified to judge
of the industrial capacities and home-
building qualities of his people. When,
therefore, as told In a recent dispatch,
he arrived in New York a few days ago
to complete arrangements with the
Mexican government by which 83,000
acres of the best land of that country
have been 'secured for a colony from
South Africa, it Is but reasonable, to
suppose that he knows what he Is about
and that the 1000 families of the Trans
vaal which will in due time come over
will find prosperity and contentment
as well as homes In the beautiful, fertile
strip of land known as Santa Rosalia,
In the State of Chihuahua. The ad
vance contingent of this colony Is al
ready at work plowing and planting
corn on the lands secured. General Vil
joen sailed on his return to South Af
rica on the 17th Inst, and will bring
fifty families out Immediately. The
others will follow In detachments from
time to time as prudence dictates and
funds will allow. While the great body
of the Boers chafe at the changed con
ditions that have made them subjects of
Great Britain, the wiser among them
have withdrawn open opposition to the
new order of things, but they have not
abandoned the hope that somewhere a
country that shall be their very own
awaits their occupancy, and that some
time In the near future they will find
and possess It As said by General Vil
joen, the Boers are practically a peo
ple without a home, and when he adds,
"We hope to find one in the new coun
try," he voices a wish that It Is char
itable for a free people to echo. It may
be-further hoped that these people have
learned In their extremity some of the
lessons of progress, and that they will
apply them to the conditions that they
will make for themselves In their new
home. Stagnation of development with
which they were satisfied and for which
they fought In the Transvaal, may be
possible for a while In Mexico; the Iso
latlon which they desired may also be
possible, but If they seek stubbornly to
exclude the element of growth, except
as it applies to corn and cattle, from
their new surroundings, their settle
ment in the New World will In time be
beset with difficulties, even though
their environment secured Is the most
nonprogressive of any that exists on the
North American Continent
The Providence Journal finds In the
wording of the recent fast-day procla
mation of the Governor of Maine a de
sire for a clean conscience stronger
than a wish to conform to the require
ments of good taste. The following
language of this Instrument seems to
justify this mild conclusion:
Wholly contrary to good sense, and in spite
of my own convictions, I do now appoint a
fast day, hoping nobody will observe It, feel
Ing sure that It la a mockery and a farce and
wishing with all my heart that It might be
abolished and thus enable me to keep a clean
conscience.
The Idea of a fast day has been so
long outgrown that It Is surprising that
the institution as such has not been
abolished long ago. While It Is no
doubt true that the American people
eat too much, it is folly to suppose that
total abstinence from food for a day
conduces to a humble and contrite
spirit, and It Is ridiculous, at least, to
act upon the supposition of proclaiming
a legal fast day, which makes those
who observe it eat more ravenously the
next day, but which common-sense
people generally disregard even with
out waiting for the Governor to exhort
them to do so.
The arrest in the City Park Thurs
day of a harmless old fanatic who es
chews the bath, carries his Bible In his
hand when he walks abroad, and, so
far as he has any political opinions.
leans toward socialism, as a "suspi
cious person" Is not surprising. Ex
perlence has demonstrated that per
sons of this type or appearance are not
always as harmless as they look, and
prudence, as developed by the dastardly
murder of more than one President of
the United States, errs, if it can be
called an error, on the side of safety
when such a person is quietly locked
up until the Presidential procession
moves on. The pathetic side to the
picture Is afforded In the fact that Mr.
St Francis Is a great admirer, almost
worshiper, of President Roosevelt, and
has looked forward to seeing him as a
red-letter day In his lonely and almost
sad career. It Is a pity that at least
one of our long-haired insufferables was
not locked up with him and given the
choice between thirty days and a bath
and haircut
HOW TO TRIAT REPORTERS.
Victor Smith, In New York Prese.
One of the leading reporters in this
city was Introduced to' a Wall-Street brok
er, a- man of considerable consqueace,
but much puffed up with bis success aa
an elghths-and-quarters go-between. Tha
Introduced had neglected to mention that
ho was a reporter, and the conversation
was general. Later on the Identity of tho
gentleman was exposed, whereupon tha
broker threw up his hands, exclaiming:
"Good God! A reporter! I'm ruined.
Why didn't you say so before you Intro
duced him?" The situation was slightly
strained. The .reporter said quietly:
"Don't let that worry you. In the first
place, I am not here for news, ideas or
suggestions. In the second, what you
know is not worth publishing. .In the
third, nobody outside of this office ever
heard of you; therefore, what you might
Bay would bo of no newspaper .Interest
In the fourth, I carry more Wall-Street
secrets in my memory than you ever
dreamed of secrets of big mn and great
institutions. You are perfectly safe.
Good morning."
In less than two minutes that broker,
frightened ao badly, sent a friend to tha
reporter, begging him to mention an af
fair In which he personally was deeply
Interested. He Is one of a numerous class
affecting to be holler than reporters until
needing a write-up, then groveling. Suc
cessful men in public life, almost -without
exception, rely upon the reporter as a
stepping-stone to high ofiice. They will
take him Into their confidence, steer him
safely between the devlf and the deep
sea, help him to earn his salary by load
ing him up with news, and Incidentally
prosper their own cause. A combination
of reporters could ruin any man in this
country. Owners of papers, editors-in-chief,
managing editors and city editors
cannot possily get in so close touch with
the average man as can the reporters, the
ofiice representatives, whom they send out
to hunt for facts in the market place,
the palace, the hovel, the prison, the
church, the wide, wide world.
I should like to propose a high school
for the education of all men on the sub
ject of "How to Treat a Reporter." It
would end all friction. Let the puouc
first understand that the reporter is
bound to have the news at all risks. It
he cannot get It at first hand he will
take it at second, or third or tenth, tio
is not going back to his editor with a
hangdog look and say he has iauea.
Never! He will take fake first ana taKe
chances of being caught or vindicated.
On reputable papers, if caught faking, he
soon loses his Job. No reporter in his
right senses wants to fake. He wants the
truth every time. Then why hlae it;
Why Insult him? Why increase bis labors
a thousand fold? Why keep him out on
the still hunt all night when by treating
him In 'a common, sensible manner you
could set him right in a second and have
early copy for the composing room?
Many persons look down on reporters
as If they were inferior creatures. They
forget that 99 times in 100 the newsgatn
erers are of higher caste than those from
whom they seek information. Reporters
are not looking for anything good about
people, for the public wouli never stop
to read it They want all the bad about
men and women they can dig out and
It Is the bad things about bad people
that make the newspaper interesting.
Through long mingling with the evil
classes reporters become contammatea,
and It must not be wondered at if there
should be an occasional fall from grace.
I do not know any reporters who are
angels, and I do know some who are
devils with painted wings, but take them
all in all they are the best set of ieiiows
In the world, working like mad for theli
employers, spending liberally, living mer
rily and ever eager to do a favor ana
forget It
WHAT'S
WITH
THE MATTER
YACHTING?
Portland's lovers of aquatic sports
are at last awakening to the fact that
the Willamette River affords great op
portunity for this kind of outdoor ex
ercise. The yachting club and the row
ing club have both been struggling
along with indifferent support for some
years, and why this should be Is a
question not easily answered. This
season, however, ' even early as it 13,
has developed a keener Interest In the
sport and with both organizations on
firm financial basis Portland Is In for
a season of aquatic sport such as has
never been enjoyed in the city's history.
While the Interest in yachting is not
what it should be, considering the
natural resources, the Rowing Club is
flourishing In the most approved fash
ion. This club has a membership of
over 200, and on its rolls are some of
the best amateur oarsmen in the coun
try, and without undue boasting fours
could be selected from the half dozen
sets In the club which. If they were to
go East, would rank close to the crack3
of that section of the country. On the
30th of this month the crack Junior four
of the University of California will
race with a select four from the Port
land Rowing Club. This will be the
.first of many races which the club will
take part in this season. The Willam
ette River affords a natural course
which is openthe year round. During
the Winter months and early Spring
the current Is very swift making row
ing difficult, butr in spite of this the
various crews of the club rarely miss
a day. This battling with swift cur
rents fits the members of the local club
for fast racing and makes them form
idable opponents, not only on their
home course, but on any other that they
might be called to row upon.
Before the season closes the Rowing
Club will have a new clubhouse.- The
new building will be handsomely
equipped and In every way will be a
credit to Portland. This will create
renewed Interest In the sport and will
also permit the club to become one of
the social features of the 'city.
Just why yachting Is not more popu
lar Is not known. It Is not because
the river does not afford ample space
and sufficient wind, nor is it because
yachts cannot be built hers as cheaply.
A unique as well as beautiful and
striking feature of the President's pa
rade in this city was the moving hu
man flag, with its undulations of red.
white and blue. The happy faces that
shone above the National colors In
which the children were clad showed
the patriotic and personal Interest that
each child felt In the day and occa
sion. Neither the fatigue Incident to
the exacting drill that had preceded the
display, and to the march of many
blocks with military precision, nor the
rain that fell in the late afternoon.
clouded the happiness, of the living fac
tors in this pulsating "Star-Spangled
Banner." After being disbanded, the
flag children broke up Into bands and
wended their way homeward, wet and
mud-bespattered, but happy still, as
their cheerful voices and merry laugh
ter testified. It Is safe to say that this
feature of the Presidential parade will
be described to listening and delighted
children In many homes In future years,
over which the laughing little girls of
today preside as matrons and moth
ers. The Idea embodied In the Hying,
moving flag was a quaint and happy
one, and Professor Krohn 13 to be con-
gratulated upon the manner In which
It was carried out and the school au
thorities in general upon the perfect
discipline demonstrated.
A provision in the agricultural ap
propriation bill passed by Congress at
Its last session, and which is now a
law, is very stringent as a preventive
of the importation and sale of adulter
ated, Impure, falsely labeled and dele
terious drugs and articles of food and
drink. The purpose is rigorously to
exclude all such products, and the
power to do so Is placed In the hands
of Government officials. While- this
power will not be used unfairly or ar
bitrarily, It Is but human to suppose
that It will be In a measure retaliatory.
A great deal of the food, wine, drugs,
etc.. Imported into this country Is adul
terated, some of It harmfully and some
objectionably without being positively.
Injurious. Since some foreign nations
have gone aside to discriminate against
American products as unhealthful
merely to cut them off, they will have
no cause to complain that our Gov
ernment has decided to scrutinize their
products on this basis a little more
closely than It has done heretofore.
Persons who feel that their talents
do not at present declare a large divi
dend ought to find some consolation in
the fact that five of the leading jockeys
have been engaged at salaries ranging
from $15,000 to $40,000 for the season.
An eminent actor makes more than
twice as much as the most successful
author, and so does a popular dancer.
and probably a successful prizefighter
makes more money than a popular
actor. The only man of brains that
seems to find a market for his wares
Is Flnley P. Dunne, the popular hu
morist, who Is reported to have made
an engagement to write for the Har
pers for a salary of $40,000 a year.
O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of
Statistics, finds by comparison that the
United States imported between seven
and eight tlme3 as much medicinal
opium in 1902 as was imported- in 1898.
Specifically, a total of 72,287 pounds of
this drug was Imported In the earlier
and 548,674 pounds in the later year.
Compared according to values, the Im
portation of morphia and salts rose
during the five years covered from $33,-
629 to $96,559, those of cocaine and salts
In the same period from $59,660 to $254,-
704, and those of morphine from $989,690
to $2,549,421. The suggestion behind
these figures is appalling. Of course,
It Is Impossible to determine how much
of this enormous Increase in consump
tion is due to and chargeable against
physicians who are all too prompt In
prescribing these drugs and how much
to the ignorance and carelessness of the
victims themselves. It is sufficient to
say that between the two causes the
effect is something to make humanity
shudder.
On March 31 last the national debt of
Great Britain was 800,443,38, as com
pared with 635,040,965 on March 31,
1S93. From this It can be seen that the
Boer War added in round numbers
165.000.000 to the debt The total debt
today is higher than It has been since
I8C9, when It was 804,458,000, and Great
Britain now owes only ,&0,GG6 less
ihan. it-did at th outbreak of ihe Crl-
Whlle It Is natural that Jews should
repel with Indignation the statements
of Count Casein! In regard to the Rus
sian Jews, It Is not surprising that the
statements should have been made.
His master's servant the Count could
not remain silent when confronted by
the Klshlnef tale, by which his govern
ment was arraigned before the broad
open court of humanity. Nor could he
speak without attempting a defense of
his government His attitude i3 that
of a politician sLt bay, of a man upon
whom devolves the difficult task pf
making the" worse, appear 'the better-
reason.
WHERE THE ROMANCE LIES.
Kansas City Star.
From one Dolnt of view the JJewLs and
Clark expedition, which started up tha
Missouri 99 years ago, was a tnorougniy
romantic affair. The explorers were ioi
lowlng a strangely attractive yet treacher.
ous river Into a land where no white man
had ever trod. For -months they were to
wander in the wilderness. They were to
lose themselves in the continuous woods
where rolls the Oregon, and - hears no
sound save his own dashings." It was
a journey to delight a poet's soul.
Yet from another standpoint the trip
was a very nrosalc enterprise. There was
plenty of rough work ahead of the ex
plorers. They were to travel several tnou-
sands miles in boats ana on loot. j.ney
were to be drenched with rain, chilled by
cold, tormented by mosquitoes and worn
with rowing and climbing. For months
they were not to see a man of their own
race. Lewis and Clark themselves, while
they doubtless looked forward to the trip
with zest, as young and vigorous men
should, probably never thought of it as
an heroic or romantic undertaKing.
After all. the romance of a thing lies
In the point of view. It Is thoroughly sub
jective. The old Illustration of the falling
tree on the deserted island applies nera.
The atmospheric waves do not constitute
sound unless there Is an ear and Drain to
transform them, and all the elements of
romance may make a vain appeal to the
prosaic mind. Most persons have enough
of the emotional about them to see the
romantic aspect of things when once
some poet has pointed It out But where
they have nobody to guide them they
stumble about blindly. That Is why KIp
llne's McAndrew appeals for some Robbie
Burns to sing the song of steam. The song
of the scythe and' the gleaner has been '
sung of tenenough. But the modern reaper
and steam thresher, though as romantic
as their ancient prototypes nave wen
neglected and declared to be unpoeticai.
Their seer has not yet come.
Thousands of Dersons have wandered
along the Arkansas River and seen only
a commonplace stream, witn sanaoars no
hinsr the slucrelsh current It took a man
of Ingalls quality of soul to write to
Major Inman he of "The uia oama ne
Trail" "I shall read your book and see if
you have caught the subtle romance of
the mysterious and lascinaung river, -wnu
the sandhill cranes flying over its soli
tudes." From the standpoint of the
freighters the trail itself wa3 a mere road
over which they drove their wagon trains.
But to a man like Noble Prentls It was
'transformed into a strange highway, as
romantic as ever the ram heat upon, ao
most persons a daisy Is hardly more than
weed. But woraswortn saw it witn
other eyes.
The city or town or country oiten iooks
monotonous enough to the person who sees
It day after day until suddenly his atten
tion 13 called to some aspect of It which
gives it a new meaning to him. The poe
try was there an along, DUt ne naa Deen
blind to It before. The man or woman
who longs for the opportunity that came
to Lewis and Clark has Just as large a
field of romance on every side if he but
knew it The Valley of the Missouri' Is
no less fascinating and mysterious now
that It is crowded with towns and cities
than it was In the days of the mastodon
or when the "dragons of the prime tore
each other in their slime." But the" ro
mance belongs to the person who feela it
not to the river valley.
The YoHHg May Moea.
Thomas' Moore.
Tho young- Hay moon Is beaming:. love.
The glow-worm's lamp is gleaming; love;
How sweet to rove
Through Morna's grave.
When the drowiy world Is dreaming, love I
Then awake! the heavens look bright.' my dear.
'TIh never too lata for delight, my dear;
And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days
i Is to steal a tew hours from the night my dear I
Now all the world Is sleeping, love.
But the sage, his star-watch keeping-, 'love;
And I, whose star
More glorious tar;
Is the eye from that casement peeping, love,
Then awake! till rite ot the sub, my - dear.
The sage's glaa we'll hws. say dear:
Or. la watchlsg the Sight
Of bodies oe light . .
He ssigbt happen to tafca thee- toM,jsy dMct