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THE CONDITIONS THAT AWAIT THE
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
- A Democrat of high political intelli
gence has recently in the New Tork
Sim set forth some reasons for his be
lief that the unexpected dark horse may
win at St. Louis, even as Franklin
Pierce did In 1852. This correspondent
is a Southern man from Richmond, "Va.
Cass was defeated in 1848 for the Presi
dency by a third party composed, of
Free-Soil Democrats, who were sufficiently-numerous
in the State of New
Captain Mclntyre's license, he can
never restore the public confidence
which the cowardly skipper forfeited
when he abandoned his ship and half
a hundred victims whose lives had been
intrusted to his care. There was no re
deeming feature In the conduct of Cap
tain Mclntyre at the time of the South
Portland disaster, and he will go
through life a marked man. -
dependence of thought regarding his
art and as a speaker he always failed
when called upon. The truth , is that
Edwin Booth, was not a thinker at all?
he simply followed the traditions of the
stage, and -some of the very worst at
that; he was a man of histrionic talent
without a spark of genius and without
any of the excellent accomplishments
of either Irving or Jefferson, or even
Richard Mansfield, who is a superior
student and scholar within the lines of
his profession.
Irving. Jefferson, the elder Booth and
B. L. Davenport stand for a school of
actors who were always men of culture.
In
A FESTIVE WEEK.
The coming week In this city will be
rich in the renewal of old friendships. Forrest was not -without culture.
and in commemoration of events of the England. Macreadv John and Charles
Tork to give the electoral vote of that J past which lie close to the hearts of jcemble and Charles Kean were men of
state to Taylor, when the Baltimore I those whom -we hail as "pioneers." Vis- I histrionic talent, as well as literary cul-
mng oi tne oia-rasnionea order, nana-
Democratic Convention assembled In
1852 it was plain that in order to secure
the election of its candidate the breach
which had been shown by Van Buren's
candidacy in 1S4S must be repaired, for
the Free-Soil Democrats still held the
balance of power in the pivotal state of
New Tork. Substitute Bryan and anti-
Bryan for Hunkers and Barnburners
and the condition of 1852 is somewhat
reproduced In 1904. Of the four men
most In Democratic favor before the
National Democratic Convention of
1852 one came from. New Tork, one from
shaking, feasting and such sober rev
elry as may be indulged and enjoyed by
men and women grown old, or who are
growing old, will be the features of the
mildly but genuinely festive week.
Indian "War veterans, grizzled with
years, but happy in the tardy recog
nition that they have received from the
Government for services In the border
wars of half a century ago, "will meet.
rehearse old stories of camp life and
savage encounter, or perhaps and who
can blame them for drawing upon a
ture and acocmpllshment.
STRONG SALMON SITUATION.
The news from Astoria that a large
run of salmon is headed for the Colum
bia River will be quite welcome to the
fishermen,- who find- their returns to
date much smaller than those of last
year. There is plenty of time yet for
the pack to be pulled up to good pro
portions, and the experience of the past
few years" has proven that artificial
propagation has practically guaranteed
Kansas City Rlcksecker Cigar Co.. Ninth pennaylvaaIak one atfchigan and fund of Imagination so inexhaustible- & supply of raw material which is cer-
one from Illinois. These four popular J invent new ones by way of variety, ana
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TESTER DAT' S WEATHER Maximum tern-
perature, e2 deg.; minimum. 52. Precipitation,
.03 inch.
TO DATS WEATHER Fair and warmer;
northwest win da.
5PORTXAND, SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1004.
MS. FAIRBANKS.
Charles "Warren Fairbanks, who proh
ably will be named for the. Vice-Presi
dency by the National Republican Con-
vention this week, Is a man of good
abilities and high character. He is a
native of Ohio, is 52 years of age, was
reared on a farm, studied law and re-
moved to Indiana In 1874, where he has
since resided. He 6oon gained a con
spicuous position at the bar of Indian
apolis, acquired a moderate fortune
though not large wealth was elected to
the United States Senate In 1897 and re-
favorltes were Cass, Buchanan, Marcy
and Douglas. There were a half dozen
minor candidates, which included
among others Joseph Lane, of Oregon,
and Daniel S. Dickinson, of New Tork.
On the first ballot Cass had 116 votes,
Buchanan 93. Cass obtained once 173
votes, Buchanan 104 votes, Marcy 97,
while the highest vote obtained by
Douglas was 92. On the thirty-fifth
ballot Virginia, whose preference had
been expressed for Buchanan, cast her
votes for Franklin Pierce, of New
Hampshire. New Hampshire had thus
far voted for Cass, a native of that
state. On the forty-sixth ballot Ken
tucky Joined Virginia; on the forty-
eighth ballot Pierce's vote rose to 55. On
the next and final ballot there was a
spontaneous and nearly unanimous
movement "of the conveptlon toward
Pierce, and he received 282 out of the
entire 288 votes.
To present in 1904 such a situation as
existed in 1S52 the veteran Democrat
who writes the Sun says that Cleve
land, Gorman, Olney and Hill, four
Democratic warhorses, like Buchanan,
Marcy, Cass and Douglas, should divide
the field at St Louis, and finally, after
nearly fifty ballotlngs, they shoujd be
set aside in favor of a new., man, a
young man, identified with Democratic
party struggles and favorably known
by Democratic Congressmen. Of course
Pierce -was not an "unknown man" In
his party; he was Speaker of the New
Hampshire Legislature when he was
but 27 years of age; when he was but
28 he was sent to Congress and served
two terms. At 34 years of age he was
elected to the United States Senate.
The son of a Revolutionary soldier, he
served with credit In the Mexican "War
as a volunteer; he was the most bril
liant Jury lawyer of his state from 1842
to 1852, and he declined a re-election to
the United States Senate in January,
1852, in favor of Charles G. Atherton,
make merry as old men will over the
annual feast of good things provided by
the "Daughters of the Veterans. '
Pioneers, unclassified except as "pio
neers," -will have their Innings lir like
manner, with marching and the music
of brass bands; with speech and prayer
and eulogy, and many a reminiscent
tale, the old folk will gather together
and be feasted upon the very fat of the
land. "Nothing Is too' good for the, In
dian "War veterans," say the whlte
aproned women who are preparing a
banquet for the grizzled remnant of the
host that "defended the settlements" In
the early days from bloodthirsty sav
ages. And "nothing Is too good for the
pioneers," say the whlte-aproned con
tingent that is busying Itself with
meats and salads, fish and faults, cakes
and coffee and ice cream for the ban
quet that will be spread In the Armory.
Touth has many pleasures: age but
few. But from the zest with which
those who have left a long line of years
behind them enter Into the enjoyment
of the pleasures; Incident to the occasion
of the pioneer reunion we may "well
believe' that what elderly people lack In
opportunity Is made up In the Intensity
of their enjoyment. Portland takes
pride In these annual guests ''and pleas
ure In entertaining them.
ought completely to have wrecked hjs
army; his attack on "Wellinglon at
Quatre Bras was badly directed by Ney,
so that a whole corps was kept useless
ly marching between Ney and Napoleon
when It ought to have struck either
"Wellington or Blucher.
The English are a fair-minded people;
for from Napier, who fought- against
Napoleon's forces in Spain, down to
"Wolseley, In our own " day, 'the most
eloquent defenders ofT-Napoleon'a fame
as the greatest soldier, of moderri. times
have been English military critics.
These Englishmen say, as Vandamme
said: "The Bonaparte of Marengo was
spare in flesh, alert In every movement,
laconic in speedy whose strategy was
splendid and whose tactical execution
was at once strong, swift and auda
cious; but the Napoleon of "Waterloo Is
fat, languid In his bodily movement,
diffuse In his speech, inert and feeble
In tactical execution."
The English writers agree that Napo
leon, was but the ghost at "Waterloo of
the 'Napoleon of Marengo, Austerlltz
and Friedland.
OLD TEOPI-E.
Chaunoey Depew recently declared
that in these days man at 70 was in his
prime. Russell Sage Is 88. E. N. Tal
ler Is past BO, and is Invariably seen at
most of the weddings, receptions, musl-
tain to be available before the end of
the season. The Increasing demand for
fish which now find a market through
the cold-storage houses may keep the
pack down to smaller proportions than
it has reached'in former years; but, as
the net returns on thecold-storage fish
are more remunerative than on the
canned product, the industry as a whole
Is a gainer. Even should the pack for
1904 prove no greater than its predeces
sor, it will, on account of the strong
statistical position of, the market, pro
duce a greater revenue, as the outlook
Is quite favorable for much higher
prices.
The total pack of the Columbia River
Is small in comparison with that of
Puget' Sound, British Columbia and
Alaska, but as it stands in a class by
itself and Is practically wlthoutcompe-
tition, there is "no danger of a glut In
the market, and for more than, five
years carry-over stocks of Columbia
River salmon have been practically un
knqwn. Illustrative of the pre-emi
nence of the Columbia River salmon In
the world's markets, the figures on the
pack and the carry-over for the past
few years are interesting. In 1901 the
total pack of red salmon at all Pacific
and Alaskan ports was 3,962,986 cases,
while the consumption was but 2,S21,061
cases, leaving -a carry-over of 1,141,925
cases, none of which was Columbia
River salmon. The consumption in
creased sufficiently the following year
to take up the most of this carry-over
stock, and there were carried over Into
1903 but 140,000 cases, of red salmon, all
being of the northern pack. Last year
the coast pack of red salmon was bul
2,596,556 cases, and every case of Colum
The new Quarterly of the Oregon His
torical Society has highly interesting
articles, of permanent value in their
development and detail of our early his
tory. The first is "The Mercer Immi
gration," by C. B. Bagley, of Seattle.
The second Is "The Evolution of Spo
kane and Stevens Counties, "Washing
ton," by Thomas W. Prosch. The third
Is "Extracts From the Recollections of
an Indian Agent," by T. W. Davenport.
The fourth Is. by John Mlnto, with the
title "Antecedents of the Oregon Pio
neers and the Light These Throw on
Their Motives." A final article Is a re
print from Peter H. Burnett's "Recol
lections and Opinions of an Old Pio
neer" being the chapters in Burnett's
book that -relate especially to Oregon
Bagley's account-'of the Mercer Immi
gration revives a story that was likely
to be forgotten In Its details. Nearly
forty years ago A- S. Mercer brought
out from New Tork a shipload. of young
women on the steamer Continental to
Puget Sound. Most of them married in
the country and reared families. Mer
cer himself l3still living, in the State
of "Wyoming. He contributes many of
the details of Mr. Bagley's article. The
steamer Continental afterwards ran be
tween Portland and San Francisco for
a time, and finally was lost In the Gulf
of California. .
cales, dinners, the opera, the play. John
B. Ireland, who Is nearly 90, walks to bla River was sold before the end of the
his office every morning, rain or shine. year. These figures on consumption of
A floorwalker and manager of one of
the Broadway department stores re
cently died of pneumonia at 82. Isaac
Townsend, who Is 91, -is still an active
man of business, and has been Slam's
elected in 1903. He was a delegate at oTtw tected Consul-General for the last forty years
large to the Republican National Con
vention at St. Louis In 1896, and was
temporary chairman of the convention;
was again a delegate at large in 1900,
and as chairman of the committee on
resolutions reported the platform.
Senator Fairbanks is a man of unas
sumlng demeanor and agreeable ad
dress. He "is more noted for Judicious
Senator. Pierce had always been a pro-
slavery Democrat of the bitterest type,
The New Tork Tribune said of Pierce
on July 10, 1852: "We Tegard him as
the bitterest, harshest, most pro-slavery
and prescriptive Hunker in the entire
North." Horace Greeley knew his man
and did not underrate him, and the
events of Pierce's Administration show
These are some of the old people upon
which Chauncey Depew congratulates
New Tork City. But then there is noth
ing new under the sun, not even old
course include stocks that have passed
out of the hands of packers and jobbers
and have become so widely distributed,
if not actually consumed, as practically
to remove them from the market.
The sockeye pack on Puget Sound
reaches large proportions every four
years, declining in the interval to very
small figures. Observation of these
four-year cycles has taught the can-
people, as the records of Westminster "nerymen that the third year after the
Abbey affirm In the record of Old Parr. I big run is the smallest of the series, and
Thomas Parr, If the inscription in the I the belief of the canriers in this theory
abbey speaks true, was 152 and lived is evidenced by their very conservativr
under ten rulers of England. He mar- preparations this year. There, is no
Among recent brief publications .on
the pioneer history of Oregon is one. of
high value, by Edward H. Lenox, who
now lives at an advanced age in Oak
land, Cal. He came to Oregon in his
boyhood, with the migration of 1843. His
father, David T. Lenox, who brought
his entire family across the plains that
year, settled on Tualatin Plains, about
twelve miles west of the spot where the
City of Portland afterwards was found
ed. This natriarch of the Lenoxes
still remembered by all the older sur
viving settlers and natives of this, part
of Oregon. Of his three sons, Edward
went to 'California; David removed to
Southern Oregon, and Samuel lives at
Gaston. The daughters of the family,
one of whom married John S. "White,
who was a member of the. Legislature
In 1866, and bore a chief part in, the
election of H. W. Corbett to the Senate
la that year, and another, the wife of
"William Hudson, long time In the police
service of Portland, passed away long
since. The author of this little book,
-which is an account of the journey to
Oregon in 1843, i3 about 75 years of age.
He has produced an Interesting story,
full of reminiscences of the persons and
' THE IMMIGRATION RING.,
The Arrangement .Through Which
Vast Numbers. Are Unloaded
on the Country.
Chicago Tribune.
During the nine months ending March 31
last 130,000 Immigrants from Austria-Hungary
entered the United States. Most of
them came from the Hungarian part of
the dual monarchy. Were they desirable.
immigrants? That depends upon tne
point of view. They were highly desira
ble in the opinion of the coal barons and
the managers of steel mills. That immi
gration furnishes the cheap, unorganized
labor ther desire. They ask for more
and more of that labor, though occaslonr
ally it becomes turbulent and riotous, ana
employers appeal wildly for the militia to
put down their rebellious "Huns.
From another anda better point or,
lew the Hungarian Immigration is high
ly undesirable. It is stimulated and un--
natural. It is promoted by steamship
companies and by the Hungarian govern
ment. The policy of the transportation
companies' is easily understood. The
more passengers they get the more money
they make. The policy of the Hungarian
government Is exposed.ln an article In a
recent number of the Paris edition of the
New Tork Herald.
A large percentage of the Hungarians
come with no Intention of staying here.
Their object is to save until they have
enough to buy a little" farm and then' re
turn home. Since that is their aim they
live aa-cheaply as they can. The Ameri-
can standard or. living is not aaoptea Dy
thsm. So while they work for lower
wages than an American would, they send
large sums home to support their families
or to -accumulate until they return. Last
year they remitted $30,000,000. If they
were like some other immigrants part of
the money would have been spent in
American stores, for American goods and
part of it in buying American farms.
The Hungarian government, desirous
that tills flood of gold should continue to
pour into the country, encourages emi
gration, but it has to do so in an under.
hand way. The landowners are bitterly
opposed to emigration, because it de
creases the supply of labor. Their gov
ernment cannot openly antagonize them,
and hence Jf. enacts legislation apparently
to; discourage the outflow of labor. It
has abolished all emigration agencies, and
has provided that emigrants shall sail
from the single port of Flume, so that a
better watch may be kept over tnem.
At the same time the Hungarian gov
ernment has a contract with the Cunard
line by which it guarantees the company
a minimumof 30,000 emigrants yearly, and
binds Itself to pay J20 to the company lor
every emigrant under the number. Un
der the pretense of checking emigration
-the government is trying to foster it
At tne last session tne aenaie put in
one of the appropriation bills a provision
refusing admission to the country to the
state-aided emigrants from Hungary, but
the House refused to concur in It. So
those emigrants will have to be let In
The coal and steel men will continue to
get cheap labor and the deposits in iiun
garian banks will increase.
At the next session of Congress the un
holy alliance of American coal barons, an
English steamship line and a European
government to flu American mines and
mills with undesirable workers should ba
broken up.
known for a quiet firmness and resolu
tion that never fail him. He sees quick
ly the essential points of any subject to
which he directs his attention, and he
speaks with the easy air of an advocate
rather than with the studied energy
and balanced periods of the profes
sional orator. He can be depended on
lor sense, for Judgment and for fidelity.
The Republican party will make no
mistake if it nominates him. Tet to
euch a man the Vice-Presidency can be
no object of desire. His term as Sena
tor will last as long as the term of the
Vipp-Presldencw and In ordinary con
dltlons the position of Senator has the
greater importance. Possibly Mr. Fair
banks may think he would be more
likely to succeed to the Presidency next
term from the Vice-Presidential office
than from his seat in the Senate; or
again, he may feel that he is scarcely
at liberty to decline a place for which
his party Is urging him, with a prac
tical unanimity.
what they were about when they pre
ferred Pierce to Cass, Marcy, Buchanan
or Douglas. The South knew that
Pierce was sincerely a pro-slavery man
who would go with the South to any
lengths. Cass, Marcy, and even Doug
las, were suspected of Unionism, and
the courage of Buchanan was not trust
ed, but Pierce was a man of courage
and he was a Northerner with intensely
Southern principles,
To present in 1904 a counterpart of
1852, St. Louis must nominate a candl
date who has been "the bitterest, harsh
est opponent of executive usurpations
in the White House since the death of
McKInley." This Southern Democrat
holds that these so-called "executive
usurpations" are looked upon In Vif
ginia as the predominant Issue of 1904,
as was the compromise measure of 1850
130. He began life as a farm servant,
and would have died on his Shropshire
farm if the Earl of Arundel had not
brought him up to town by stages and
presented him to King Charles I as a
'piece of antiquity." The King inquired,
"What have you, who have lived longer
than other -men, done more than other
men?" Parr answered that he had
done penance in a white sheet when he
was 100. Parr was exhibited as a curi
osity at a tavern in London until he
died, in 1635. He must have been a
man of some native humor, for he
adopted the religion of ten Kings and
Queens. He came into this world raw,
and he told Charles Stuart he saw no
good In being broiled out of it. Parr
possessed the true temperament for a
man who wishes to obtain old age. He
did not believe in worrying about either
of Alaska or Northern British Colum
bia will show any marked increase; so,
with a light sockeye pack on Pusrit
Sound and British Columbia, the avail
able supply of red salmon will be much
smaller this year than for a long time
While the pack has been tapering oft
from the high-water mark of 1901, the
Bert Nelson, a "loop-the-loop" bicycle
rider. Is dying at Salt Lake as the re
suit of a thirty-foot fall with his wheel,
Mr. "Daredevil" Edwards met with
similar accident in Portland last wek.
Realizing that this Is a free country,, as
demand has been steadily increising. .well as In some respects a freak coun
This Increase is less marked n the de- try, these gentlemen probably see no
mand for red salmon than for the reason why objections should be made
' A'OTE AND -COMMENT. $
Cutting the Knot. ,V
Sis.. was in her hammock.
All dressed np so frlllr.
Throwing deadly glances
At her caller. -WUHe.' ' e
"mille awnng beside httf.'-
Hammock held them snugly
"Willie was a slow one.
That's what made her v&lT.
Sia' many dodges
Might make Cupid humble: .',
All her arts -were wasted, !
"Willie wouldn't tumble.
Time ,was swiftly passlnff, "
SIs" -was growing madder,
"Wished, a Summer caller v
Just a trifle badder.
Then" her "brother Johnny,
TYho. had come- to and them,
Sneaked up like an Injun,
TJripercelved behind them. '
As he slashed the netUng
Sis forgot to grumble
"When the hammock busted,
"Willie took a tumble.
cheaper grades, but even In the best
grades of red salmon there is a growing
demand which will surely result In
higher prices.
to - their efforts to spatter their car
casses over the ground. By a similar
line of reasoning the man in the story
is said to have justified his act In re-
Wlth this Increased demand no other, maining seated on the railroad track as
canners are so well situated to exact the fast express approached. mis,
the limit on Increased prices as those on said he. "Is a free country, and I have a
the Columbia River. Competition right to get run pver if I want to. ane
among Columbia River" packers' should tatloh-.agent, having contrary views as
be and undoubtedly is a thing of the to what freedom means, remarked as
i eumpromise measure oi isoo , ,, xi .,,., ,o,. r n ,Q V pVdH thP r-cntlpmnn flown th em-
regarded as finality in 1852. - This ty, w T,h 'a., . .a .i v,w,m,f to n nin nf safotv. "Per-
rOKT ARTHUR.
Southern Democrat points out that In
1852 the nomination of Pierce reunited
the disunited Democracy of New Tork
and the whole country, and received the
largest percentage of the electoral vote
any Presidential candidate ever re
TJ -.. A.Viiii ivUl rprtn Inltf fall titiIpss
Russia can soon obtain command of "lved. excepting Washington and Jef-
the sea, of which, however, there Is no
appearance of probability. For Russia,
with all the troops she may be able to
bring up. cannot now relieve Port Ar
thur from the land side. The forces of
Japan on the Llao Tung Peninsula, to
nil appearance, are surely established
and so fortified that the Russians can
not dislodge them by land attack, and
established thus In the rear of Port
Arthur, and supplied from the sea un
der protection of the Japanese fleet,
they will be able to beat off any attack
bv the Russians upon their rear. The
condition is one which, If not relieved,
can have but one termination the fall
of Port Arthur. And yet this may not
occur for a considerable time.
There Is no stronghold so strong that
it cannot be taken, under conditions
such as these. The strength of Gibral
tar lies in England's command of the
sea. Otherwise. Gibraltar would have
been wrested from her long ago. Every
fortified place Is sure to yield to the
effort of besiegers who have strength
enough to shut It up from succor. In
our Civil "War Vicksburg fell, through
siege, but it cannot properly be said
that what Is usually called the siege of
Richmond was in reality a siege at all
ferson. This Southern Democrat in
quires: "What may come to pass If
all Democratic candidates now in
sight shall be voted for in vain at St.
Louis, none getting two-thirds, and
Virginia shall on the thirty-fifth ballot
ing, as she did for Pierce in 1S52, cast
her full vote for the young and popu
lar Mayor of Greater New Tork, who Is,
llko Pierce, familiar by actual experi
ence with the workings of government
at "Washington, is highly respected and
esteemed by Southern Democratic Con
gressmen, and indeed by all Congress'
men?"
This is a shrewd plea for the nomlna-
tlon of Mayor McClellan, of New Tork,
for President, whose strength as a can
didate Is very like that of Franklin
Pierce. He has personal tact, Is a com
petent and dignified executive officer, Is
a mait'of Congressional experience and
popularity, and, most ominous of all,
seems to have retained the good-will
of Bryan from the fact that his last
speech on finance In, Congress Included
an Indorsement of Bryan s "free-silver"
views.
If McClellan could obtain the nomina
tion backed by the Bryan element, he
would be a formidable candidate, but it
He reached manhood under Henry YJ1.
He escaped persecution under Henry
VTn, under Bloody Mary and under
Elizabeth, and survived to tell Charles
I that he was sufficiently frolicsome as
to do penance in a white sheet when he
was 100 years of age.
If King Charles I had had the tem
perament of "Old Parr" he would not
have lost hls'head, for long-lived men
are always men who have the temper of
a good, safe Xamlly horse. Tour Napole
ons, Pitts, Hamiltons, Mlrabeaus, Crom-
wells, die before they reach 70, but your
very old people Include merchants like
Peter Cooper, bankers like Sir Moses
Monlefiore, theologians like Newman
and Martineau, or old soldiers like
Gough or Sir Hugh Rose. Old people
Increase In numbers, but the stress of
modern civilization is too severe to ex
pect the production of another Old Parr.
In steadily Increasing quantities.
" " - ""Vw r; will be Impossible to obtain his nomlna-
communication with the states of which
she was the capital city. There were
three railroad lines on which trains
came and went daily; and finally the
city was abandoned by the Confeder
ates because it became apparent that
these avenues were about to be closed.
The siege of Sebastopol stood on
grounds somewhat similar. Sebastopol
never was cut off from communication
with Russia. The principal forts, on
one side, after the most terrible bom
bardment in the history of war, were
carried by assault; yet the. remainder of
the fortress was still practically lm
pregnable. The situation was, however.
soon after relieved by negotiations for
B. Hill Democracy. The quarrel be
tween Tammany and Hill would be sure
to lose McClellan New Tork, unless
McClellan was nominated with the ap
proval of Bryan.
HISTORIC ACTORS
The announcement by Sir Henry Ir
ving that he would retire from the
stage in 1906, having been forty-eight
years an actor, recalls the fact that Sir
Henry Irving is among the few notable
actors who is something more than an
actor. He is a scholar and a thinker.
Irving is a man of remarkable literary
ability. He Is an elegant and Instruct
Ive speaker on all subjects directly or
Indirectly related to his beautiful art.
If Mr. Irving had never been an actor
he would have been distinguished hi
the field of literature or art criticism
There is no actor In America, save
Mr. Jefferson, who can lay claim to the
accomplishments of Mr. Irving. Mr.
Jefferson Is an artist of no mean abll-
THE ANNXV2SRSARY OF WATERLOO.
Testerday was the anniversary of the
great battle of Waterloo. The steadi
ness of the British Infantry on that
fateful day was never excelled In . the
military annals of England, but the
battle was won by Irruption of the
Prussians under Bulow upon Napo
leon's right and rear while the battle
was under way.
The total force which Napoleon was.
obliged to detach from his army of 70,
000 men to repel the assault of the Prus
sians numbered about 16.000, including
nearly half of the splendid infantry of
the Guard. The Emperor's entire plan
of battle was dislocated by the unex
pected appearance of Blucher. English
military writers say that Napoleon's
original blunder lay In his neglect to oc
cupy the defile of Lasnes early in the
.day.
The final assault of the Old Guard
was made while it was too weak for its
task, and furthermore, Napoleon as
saulted the strongest and not the weak'
est part of the British line. Under the
circumstances a General far inferior to
"Wellington, say the British military
critics, could have beaten Napoleon on
thelSth of June.
The Emperor was ill, quite unlike him
self, from early morning, and his tac
tical errors ruined his plan of assault.
D Erlon s over-deep masses were
wrecked against Plcton and demoral
ized by the British cavalry.
The assault upon Hougomont would
never have occurred under the Napo-
leon of Marengo. The charges of the
haps you have, my friend, but who the
deuce do you think wants to clean up
the muss?" The objection which many
people have to these exhibitions of
courtship with death Is not so much due
to a prospective loss which the world
might suffer as to a disinclination to
'clean up the muss."
The Los Angeless Express, of recent
date, has an appreciative article on the
Lewis and Clark Exposition. It says:
'Our enterprising Oregon neighbors
have undertaken the direct handling of
the memorial event, but all the moun
tain and coast states should manifest
keen Interest in the enterprise. The
National significance of the event Is in
dicated In the fact that the United
States Government has appropriated,
by act of Congress, $475,000 toward the
expense account of the Exposition at
Portland."
If President Roosevelt has time to
take his mind's eye off Chicago and
once more view with alarm the Na
tional tendency toward race suicide, we
would respectfully call his attention to
the June record for marriages in Port
land.
Senator Fulton prophesies a majority
of 30,000 in Oregon for Roosevelt No
reputation as a political seer can be
built thereon. Something like one hun
dred thousand qualified voters, not even
excluding Indians not taxed, predict the
same thing.
The Next Exposition.
Omaha Bee.
Six months after the close of the great
Exposition at St- Louis, another world
Fair .will open at Portland, Or., com
memorative . of the Lewis and Clark ex
ploration in 1805. While the Portland Ex
position will be a far less ambitious en
terprise' than that of St. Louis, it yet
promises to be very attractive, and the
event it will commemorate will commend
It to the Interest and attention of the
country.. The record of the Lewis and
Clark ' exploration is deeply interesting,
those courageous explorers having been
the first white men who ever went across
from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
This exploration, made through many
dangers and with great hardship and pri
vation, was of vast Importance, as it made
the interior of the great trans-Mississippi
region known to the country and tha
world soon after the Louisiana purchase
was effected. The account of their ob
servations, by Lewis and Clark directed at
tention both in the United States and
abroad to the region explored and pro
duced in later years results of the great
est value. The Exposition at Portland
will be the first of an international char
acter on the Pacific Coast, and as the city
in which it will be held is one of the most
attractive in that section of the country.
it is reasonably expected that the Fair
will draw many thousands of visitors.
The total cost of the Lewis and Clark
Exposition will be about $0,000,000, of
which the National Government has ap
propriated $4io,0C0.
Crowding the Limit.
New Tork Times.
As in the case of Miss Stone, so in that
of Mr. Perdlcarls, one cannot help con
sidering to just how much trouble and ex
pense a country Is in duty bound to go
In protecting the lives of citizens who
voluntarily take up their residence in
lands where they know that danger Is
abundant and the local government either
ill-disposed tovard aliens or too weak to
give them effective protection. For
consular officer, or even for a shjp cap
tain in the ordinary conduct of his bus!
ness. there Is no limit to- the obligation
of his own country, but the position of
Mr. Perdlcarls is somewhat different. He
knew Morocco and its Inhabitants and he
liked them well enough to remain-there
for vcars. Now a "bandit" with whom he
had been on friendly terms has carried
him oft Into the mountains., and threatens
to kill him unless an. enormous price Is
paid in money and more than money. It
is a difficult proBiem.
Has Anybody Lied?
"Walla Walla Argus.
According to some of the ministers down
there, Portland must be an awfully
wicked city, and a good place for the
young and Innocent to stay away irom,
When the writer was there, about a year
ago, the big town seemed very quiet and
orderly, even though it was Sunday the
day which the ministers say is the most
disorderly. It dldn t seem possible at that
time that within a year the whole city
would be turned over to thugs, gamblers
and prostitutes. There were miles upon
miles of streets lined with beautiful
homes, and the people seemed to have
naturally been born Industrious, honest
and Virtuous. How deceiving appearances
are! Now all this Is changed, and sober
ness and respectability have fled. How
fickle is humanity!
Supervising Inspector Bermingham,
of San Francisco, must fear a shortage
in the supply of shipmasters, for he has
reduced the term of suspension of Cap
tain Mclntyre. of the lost South Port
land, to two years Instead of three.
This concession Is all the more remark
able when it Is stated that the super
visor approves the findings of the local
There appears to be strong disposition
on the nart of the multitude to elevate
ity. He is a lover of good books, and In French cavalry were Degun too eany i P Boise to the position of the Grand
his articles In the Century he proved ana sustamea too long. u.ne enorts oi old Man 0f the Oregon bar. That's a
that he has fine capacity for literary the infantry were -unsupported by the I piace worth striving eighty-five years
expression; that he Knows tne history cavairy. An .cngusn soiaier. air snaw Ior-
Kennedy, says that if Napoleon naa
inspectors, and holds that "the striking
peace, and Sebastopol at the end stood on the reef and the resulting loss of life
unconauered. I was directly due to lack of care on
But at Port Arthur the situation is Mclntyre's part" .Tne inspector aiso
wholly different. The place is completely severely criticised -the action of Mcln-
isolated: It can sret no relief, as It ap- tyre in leaving tne snip Deiore au oi tne
pears either by land or sea. Its capture, I passengers had taken to the boats. Un-
-arhleh seems highly probable, within I der such circumstances It Is not clear
a short time, will be a great triumph why a license should ever again ne
Xor Japan. Nor Is It likely that the i given sucn a man. xnere is some con-
of his art; that he has studied Its prin
ciples from the viewpoint of a man of
artistic mind. Mr. Jefferson Is the only
American actor who can be truthfully
described as an accomplished, man In
the sense that Mr. Irving is an accom
plished man. The late Edwin Booth
was a man of histrionic talent, while
his great father was not only a man of
histrionic genius, but of excellent Eng
lish scholarship. Mr. Edwin Booth was
in no Eense an accomplished man. Mr.
Irving and Mr. Jefferson are thinkers
and can write and think Intelligently on
all subjects connected with the stage.
Edwin Booth could not write at all;
that is, he had no capacity for respect
able literary expression; he had no In-
used his forces in proper support, one
arm assisting the- other, "Wellington
had been lost." The losses of the Prus
sians between 4 and 5 o'clock amounted
to 7000 men, which shows how desperate
was "Wellington's need of their arrival.
Lord "Wolseley, who deems Napoleon
the greatest soldier of modern times,
ascribes Napoleon's tactical blunders In
the "Waterloo campaign to his physical
decay. His strategy, by which he di
vided "Wellington and Blucher, defeat
ing Blucher at Ligny and hitting "Wel
lington hard at Quatre BraS, on June
16, was masterly, but his power of en
ergetic execution was gone. He allowed
Blucher to retreat from Ligny when he
Since the late confessions of a Mor
mon president on the witness-stand in
"Washington- we can understand why
Prophet Smith doesn't desire to speak
to the newspapers above a whisper.
Governor La. Follette might as well
pack his grip and go -home. The "Wis
consin method does not thrive in Na
tional Republican politics. It belongs
with peanuts and beer.
Theodore Theologu's method of aveng
ing himself on. his sweetheart Is com
mended to all dissatisfied lovers like
Gugllelmo. He first killed himself, r --
Do You Know the Prohibitionists?
Baker City Herald.
The Oregonlan was the first and only
important paper in the State of Oregon to
call attention to the fact that the local
option amendment to the state constitu
tlon, which wa3 adopted at the recent
election by a bare majority, was not and
is not what its name imples. A great
deal of trouble threatens to result from
an application of the new law, which is
not a local-option law at all. hut a prohi
bitlon law In simple. However, it is safe
to trust to the good sense of the people
to prevent such an application of the law
as will result In harm to the people of the
state. Precincts desirous of abolishing
the sale of liquor In their own communl
ties will probably avail themselves of the
opportunity, but they will not attempt to
force an erroneous law upon neighboring
communities.
Fixing the Date.
Atchison Globe.
When a woman,, has a sunburst pin, that
means that" she" was married about 15
vears ago. Sunburst Dins at that tlm
were epidemic gifts .for menjto make their
-sweethearts.' No pl.d maid has a sun
burst pin. ' '";
Their English Equivalents.'
1 had a- funny Job the other night," said
a musician, who lends his talents to all sorts
of musical entertainments for charity. "I had
been asked to act as an accompanist at an
amateur .minstrel show, and when I came to
Play the accompaniment for the nrst song
suns by one of the end men I found that the
marks on the score haa oeen cnangea. this
amateur minstrel man. while he had a pow
erful voice, and a pretty good eense of
humor, seemed to have a doubt that I could
Interpret the phrases correctly, so ne naa at
temDted to Improve upon them. Where the
score was marked piano he had substituted
Go easy.' Where the score was marked
cresendo he had written In 'work up." At
the- end was" a passage marKea lortissimo,"
and this he had crossed out, substituting
Pound like !' And that's what I did."
Philadelphia Record.
Do all the sol-disant Inventors of the
submarine forget Jonah?
Cuba's tariff Is evidently not high
enough to keep out hurricanes.
The Sultan of Morocco is an absolute
ruler.. That Is to say, nes aDsoiuieiy
helpless.
Some girls fall out of a hammock so
naturally that they must spend lots of
time practicing, n.
Just as the English courts had upheld
the right of an audience to hiss, Alfred
Austin has completed a comedy.
Portland now has a saloon named the
"Local Option Bar." You pays your
money, and you takes your choice.
The Montana trainrobbers have estab
lished a precedent by not waiting to es
cape until their capture was certain.
The fall of Port Arthur is scheduled by
the Japanese for tomorrow; but even
street-cars seldom run according to sched
ule. "Are the poolrooms open? asks the
New Tork Globe. We can't tell from this
distance, but suggest that the Globe hire
a reporter.
It is said that hundreds of Finns in the
Dakotas had the late Governor-General
BobrikofCs portrait pasted in the bottoms
of their cuspidors.
Fashion can do most anything. It can
.make" a woman wear yellow shoes that
make her feet look two sizes bigger than
they do in black ones.
High School "secret- societies are xo
fall under the ban of the authorities at
Spokane. In most cases the best way to
keep an organization alive is to try to
kill It
The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Sparrowhawk has discovered an unchart
ed rock in Chinese waters. Luckily for
the British,, a destroyer is cheaper than a
battleship.
It may be a coincidence that every shoe
lace we see come untied on the street be
longs to a small, shiny, high-heeled shoe,
above which rises a neat leg in an open
work stocking.
There is a delightful uncertainty about
cable messages dated at "General Kuro
kl!s Headquarters In the Field." There is
such scope for the imagination in a field
that extends from the Yalu River to Muk
den.
The village of Gandersheim, In the Hartz
Mountains, recently ceieoratea tne
achievement of the local schoolmaster's
hen In laying her thousandth egg. The
streets were gaily decorated and the vil
lagers paraded in honor of the bird' that
had made Gandersheim famous. This is
a sensible way of celebrating, and should
prove an encouragement to the other
fowls in the Hartz district.
It is unfortunate for that "courteous
gentleman," the bandit Raisuli, that there
are so few British and American citizens
in Morocco. Just as he has established a
pleasant and extremely profitable Indus
try on a firm basis, the supply ot ma
terial will be exhausted and he will have
to relapse Into plain robbery.
The Springfield Union observes that
Americans have a craze ior opening
things (including 'wine') in a manner
more or less spectacular. The good old-
fashioned speech will no longer do. Some
body of consequence must pull a string
or press an electric key." The Union goe3
on to say that the pitching of the first ball
across the plate Is an honor usually ac
corded to the Mayor, but that the city ot
LaCrosse. Wis., has thought out a nov
elty in the opening line. The city has built
public baths and the citizens are aesirous
that their Mayor should appear, clad In
bathing drawers, and make the first dive
from the springboard. Mayor Williams has
nltched the first ball; let mm Deware me
approaching opening of the public baths.
The Mazamas are certainly a devoted
crowd. Any one that will sleep among
the free and untrammeled bugs of Nature
for the sake of awakening at 3:30 G. M.
to see a reluctant sun going to work, is
fired by the spirit that makes men die for
a lost cause. Those forehanded persona
that spend the night on Inspiration Knoll
have an easier task than the others, who
leave their warm beds before the "bird of
dawn" has sounded his clarion and begin
a long climb to the same place. Sleeping
on the ground is so uncomfortable that
one isglad to get up at any old time, so
the pangs of leaving hospitable blankets
and reposeful spring mattresses are avoid
ed. And why should any one desire to see
the sun make his daily appearance? It is
a safe bet that the innumerable poets who
have twittered of rosy Phoebus and his
tiptoeing on Eastern hills never saw the
sun before It was above the foreyardarm.
There is "nothing more romantic In watch
ing the sun about his task of warming up
the edcth than there' Is In watching Mary
or Hilda lighting the fire on the household
hearth. Bed is the proper place for mor
tals until their share of the globe has been
duly aired by the housemaid sun.
WEXFORD JONES.