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THE rjIPEES ON All IN AUTHORSHIP.
Greatest of all literature Is In dra
matic form. It hasteen so In all coun
tries and in all ages. In our time the
drama is not great; so literature Is not.
But it -would be unwise to conclude
that the dramatic form had exhausted
ite power. Under new conditions It has
been renewing itself during thousands
of years, though at long Intervals. And,
Judging from this long experience, it
will again.
Even in forms of literature not purely
dramatic, nor -written -with any refer
ence to the stage, but only for the
reader, the dramatic parts, -wherein the
author makes the speaker or the person
represented do the -work, carry the In
terest and passion over the descriptive
and narrative parts, which indeed but
onstltute the framework, to be filled
up through dramatic recital -with things
of human interest So the chief inter
est of the great epic poems and of the
great novels, and even of the great his
torical works of all ages lies In the
play of feeling through the dramatic
parts. The actors speak from nature.
So, as Shakespeare is the greatest
dramatist the world has known, he is,
consequently, the greatest writer; and
the greatest thinker, also. But great
work of this kind Is purely impersonal.
The reader, the hearer, the spectator,
must be on his guard against the sup
position that he is getting the author's
own opinions.
Immense labor has been devoted to
the effort to develop Shakespeare's re
ligious opinions from passages in his
dramas; but the labor comes to little
or nothing, because this writer is so en
tirely impersonal. He had Intuitive
knowledge of the dramatic art and
spirit, above all persons -who ever lived;
and therefore he stands as the world's
greatest -writer. He is the mirror,
through -which Is reflected the natural
spirit of his own creations. You are
not reading such a writer's opinions
when you read his -works.
Greatest literature takes the dramatic
form, because that is the form through
-which the human spirit naturally dis
plays itself. In the hands of a master
each person speaks according to his
own nature; and the ordinary character
is enlivened -with all the wit and "wis
dom or again is represented -with all
the stupidities or other limitations
naturally belonging to its condition.
The author "who attempts to interject
his own personality or character, fails.
Tou get prosy tragedies or dull come
dies, instead, of the masterpieces. The
author, dealing entirely "with a situa
tion in "which others act, but in "which
ho is not at all an actor, must be un
conscious of himself. Herein is the Tea
son "why great -writers, like Johnson
and Dryden and Young and Tennyson,
all of -whom tried the drama, never
could do anything -with it. In their
efforts "we have the writer only, and
his own feelings and opinions; not the
creations of a boundless sympathy and
imagination, supported by an observant
mind.
Therefore it is impossible to get a
knowledge from his -works of the per
sonal opinions of a great writer.
Shakespeare is the most difficult or im
possible of all in this direction, because
he is greatest. "We have spoken above
as to discussion of his religious opin
ions. The question Is perhaps one of
no great importance. Tet everything
connected -with the life and thought of
this greatest of writers and thinkers
has some Interest. A man who was
either a narrow skeptic or a bitter sec
tarian could not have achieved the
large-hearted humanity shown in the
plays of Shakespeare, nor the psycho
logic power, dominated by morality,
shown in his sonnets; and though It Is
not probaole that he was in the least
fanatical In his views, his nature as
revealed through his works -was essen
'lally religious. There is a tolerance
everywhere in his works that Is re
markable, and it has been shown by
one and another to their own satisfac
tionthat he was a Catholic, an Angli
can and an Agnostic. Here and there
we find a little satire directed against
the Puritan, but it is mild, never mor
dant. No one oan say that Shakespeare
was either Catholic or Protestant; and
although a passage of "unquestioned
Protestantism" has been pointed out
Sn King Henry VHI, the lines undoubt
edly belong to Fletcher, who collab
orated with Shakespeare in this as in
"The Two Noble Kinsmen" and other
plays. If any character is drawn by
the dramatist with a loving hand, it is
"Henry V"; and he is well-nigh a per
fect type of a Catholic hero. Henry In
Shakespeare's pages Is profoundly re
ligious, in a Catholic sense. Elsewhere
Shakespeare constantly makes refer
ence to distinctly Catholic doctrines
and practices prayers for the dead,
fasting, penanoe, pious foundations and
the religious life. Again, In "Hamlet,"
heas produced one of the great skep
tical dramas of the world greatest of
all, though its competitors are the
Book of Job, the Prometheus of Aeschy
lus and the Faust of Goethe. All his
work Is full of an Immense-religious
folk-lore, as vof all other folk-lore,
which Is used universally for illustra
tion, or as framework or support of
statement, argument or feeling, but
without slightest touch of prejudice,
intolerance or sneer. Shakespeare is
the only writer, save Homer, who has
spoken with absolute impersonality
through the characters he has created.
He who has come next to these
strange to say is the author of that
Immortal burlesque and satire "Don
Quixote."
LOCAL OPTION EASY TO GET.
"Local option" has an clastic mean
ing, for by it liquor interests designate
one kind of prohibition choice and anti
saloon workers another. In the opinion
of the one element the proper "local"
unit for expression of the "option" is
the precinct only; In the judgment of
the other the proper unit Is any area
in which prohibition can be enforced by
a vigorous public sentiment.
Consequently, members of the Antl
Saloon League and temperance workers
In general are not willing to give up
"local option" by counties. They agree
with liquor interests that in Multnomah
Couiyty the "option" should be confined
to precincts, but they Insist that Ore
gon has counties in all of whose pre
cincts prohibition can be enforced.
They may be right or wrong; very
probably they are too optimistic Time
will tell, for three counties Benton,
Tillamook and Curry will be "dry" af
ter January L However, the question
now uppermost is of another kind, and
the Legislature will be called on to deal
with it this "Winter. It is this;
Are electors to have the privilege of
voting their home precinct "dry" and
their county "wet"? Or must they vote
their home precinct "wet" In order to
save their county from prohibition, as
thousands of precinct local optionists
were constrained to do November 8 in
Multnomah and twenty-two other
counties?
This privilege was demanded by the
electors of Oregon when they enacted
the so-called "local option" law at the
polls last June. They thought they
were getting the kind of "local option"
they desired, but were mistaken. In
the Legislature this "Winter an amend
ment to the law will be offered to se
cure voters the privilege of marking
their ballots so as to exclude saloons
from their home precinct, yet not from
their county.
Enactment of that amendment is the
change most needed at this time. The
amendment will be simple. It will be
approved not only by temperance Inter
ests, but by party prohibitionists. The
legislators can support It without mis
givings. And the people will accept it
without a referendum.
If thus amended, the law will still
not be as It should In all details, but
will be a workable act and will satisfy
the local option sentiment.
THE REAL STORY OF PORT ARTHUR.
To the newspaper reader the brief
dispatches telling of the loss or capture
of a position at Port Arthur convey
lithe idea of what the feat means to
the man at the front. After reading
the vivid narrative written for The
Sunday Oregonian by Richard Barry,
some conception may be formed of the
conditions under which besiegers and
besieged do their work. The photo
graphs taken at the front under fire
will aid in bringing home the magni
tude of the operations necessitated by
the attack, and the maps, drawn by
Mr. Barry at the scene of the fighting,
will further serve to bring home the
meaning of a modern siege.
After months of desperate fighting
and patient sapping, General Nog! has
succeeded in breaching the Russian line
of defense in two places, at Keekwan,
on the northeast, and at 203-Meter Hill,
on the west. In four places his lines of
trenches are within reach of the Rus
sian parapets, and Mr. Barry's photo
graphs and maps give a clear idea of
how the zigzags and' parallels are
planned and constructed. In short, the
article In The- Oregonian today is not
only the first complete story of the
greatest assault made on Port Arthur,
but presents the first authentic maps
of the fortifications and the first pub
lished photographB of actual scenes In
the Japanese lines.
PREVENTION RATHER THAN CURE.
It is evident to all who have ob
served the effect of the cigarette bablt
upon young boys, and the difficulty, not
to say the practical Impossibility, of
causing lads to abandon the habit after
It has once been formed, that reform in
this direction lies In prevention rather
than in hope of" cure. Superintendent
Looney, of the State Reform School at
Salem, corroborates the testimony of
philanthropists and criminologists In
regard to the effect of cigarette smok
ing, saying that more than three
fourths of the boys who are committed
to the Reform School are addicted to
the use of cigarettes, and that it is
almost impossible to cure their longing
for tobacco. Mr. Looney urges stronger
legislation of a prohibitive nature In
order that young boj-6 may not be able
to procure this means of their early
undoing.
There are those who still believe that
strict enforcement of the. anti-cigarette
law that we have should be insisted
upon before a stronger one is passed.
Respect for law is weakened by an ac
cumulation of laws that are not en
forced. It is either possible or impossi
ble to enforce our present anti-cigarette
law. If the former its enforcement
should be insisted upon; if the latter,
there Is no reason to suppose that a
more stringent measure would be more
easily enforced.
Parental vigilance Is the price of pre
vention in this case. But since It has
failed, and continues to fall, of success,
there seem to be but two courses open.
The one is to make conscienceless deal
ers afraid to sell cigarettes to boys by
the prompt enforcement of the law that
forbids this act; the other is to shut our
eyes to the baleful effects of the cigar
ette and abandon all hope of a vigor
ous, intelligent, forceful American man
hood a few generations hence.
The boys who have been In the habit
of using cigarettes, says Superintend
ent Looney, can easily be selected, as
they show a listless, aimless manner
and are dull and lacking in ambition.
This statement is verified by the experi
ence of every observant teacher in the
schools of the state public and private.
The men of the state should be able
to control the boys. Or, more specific
ally, the fathers should be able to con
trol their young sons. That they are
either not able to do so or are too care
less to demonstrate their ability. In this
direction, is painfully and alarmingly
manifest In the large number of boys
who, to quote Superintendent Looney
again, have fallen under the dominion
of the cigarette habit "before Teason
and. judgment have developed."
This voice from the State Reform
School should contain a note of warn
ing. It is the small boy who needs
looking- after, lest he become "an irre
sponsible cigarette fiend" before he has
reached the age of accountability, since
all evidence goes to show that once
the habit is acquired it is almost im
possible to break it.
GOOD WORK FOR IRRIGATION.
The work being done by the Govern
ment through the Geological Survey
looking to Irrigation Is progressing
quietly and without ostentation. This
is characteristic of Government work,
and is only out of the ordinary because
that which Is being done by the Geo
logical Survey is closely connected with
the interest of the people in the sense
that it looks to. homebulldlng and there
fore comes close to the individual while
looking farther to the general advance
ment of the Nation.
The men of the-Geological Survey are
abroad in Montana, Wyoming. North
and South Dakota, Colorado, Nevada,
Idaho, Oregon and "Washington, and It
is not too much to say that they are !
laying1 the foundation of a great Inland
empire in the areas covered by their ob
servations. The aspect of Nature is
forbidding in many of these sections.
Agriculture Is Impossible without suffi
cient moisture to start crops and bring
them to perfection. Lavish of moisture
In some places and at some seasons,
niggardly In its bestowal In inany oth
ers, the purpose of the geological sur
veys now afield is to determine Where
these conditions of Nature can be
changed and how arranged so that the
moisture may be conserved through
storing the surplus that annually runs
to waste, to be distributed as the Inter
ests of agriculture require. The work
that Is being done, though vast, is pre
liminary to a comprehensive system of
irrigation that must be inaugurated if
the arid or semi-arid lands now under
observation by the Government are to
be brought under cultivation by an in
dustrious, prosperous people.
The obstacles that Nature set up
against civilization in these wilds when
the earth was in Its birth throes are
being contended against in this effort.
Or rather, we should say, they are
showing how they may be circumvented
by the patience, the intelligence and
the skill of man. The work is neces
sarily slow. In matters of such mag
nitude. Involving such enormous cost,
neither the Government nor the people
who will follow the irrigation scheme
can afford to make mistakes.
Looking with personal interest over
these lands, with the hardships, the
drawbacks and the wild beauty of
which President Roosevelt was famil
iar in his young manhood, he says:
"They should be irrigated Just as fast
as people can be found to occupy
them." That occupancy will Bpeedily
follow irrigation there is no reason to
doubt. That it cannot, to any extent, .
precede irrigation Is certain. The prob
lem will be worked to a finish In due
time. No hasty conclusions will be
worked out by the Government, nor Is
it the purpose to assume entirely pa
ternal functions in the matter. States
must lend assistance, the people them
selves must see their own Interest and
work to It cheerfully and patiently.
They must comply with conditions
which the Government sees fit to im
pose in furtherance of the grand
scheme to make what was known half
a century ago as the "Great American
Desert" the seat of a mighty inland,
empire the center of a great Republic
from which and through which, com
merce will radiate over lines of steel to
the Atlantic and the Pacific Coasts ajnd
on beyond to the islands of the and
the nations of the earth. j
The National irrigation policy Is set
tled. As stated recently by the San
Francisco Chronicle, there are no fur
ther campaigns of education to be
waged unless there are enthusiasts who
hope to Induce Congress to appropriate
for irrigation works money In excess
of -the revenues of the National domain,
or still others who expect settlers to be
released from the obligation to repay
anythlrig whatever toward the cost of
the reservoirs or works built by the
Government. Manifestly neither of
these propositions can obtain standing
in Congress. A wise governmental pol
icy helps settlers; it does not carry
them.
JANAUSCHEK AND MRS GILBERT.
"Within the brief period of one week
death has rung down the curtain
on two notable actresses. In the
passing of Mrs. Gilbert and Mad
ame Janauschek departed two grand
characters whose presence on the stage
was ever a refutation of the oft-repeated
slander that all stage Influences are
detrimental to the morals of a people.
More than a dozen years past the al
lotted three-score and ten, Mrs. Gil
bert's long life from childhood had been
Bpent In the glare of the footlights. It
was a life of patient, modest endeavor,
and it had rounded into an old age so
beautiful and so worthy that on her
first and final tour as a star the dear
old lady received ovations 3uch as are
granted but few actresses who have
youth, beauty and all it implies, to lift
them to the zenith of their fame.
For more than a generation American
playgoers have felt a kindly Interest In
the career of Mrs. Gilbert and the re
markable enthusiasm with which she
has been received wherever she has ap
peared as a star was less of a tribute
to the art of the woman than to her
altogether lovable personality. It is
not alone the playgoers who will realize
that this world Is all the better for Mrs.
Gilbert having lived in it so long, but
the example of her life will not be lost
on the children of the stage. The con
templation of this beautiful life and Its
triumphant climax will awaken a spirit
of emulation wherever the footlights
shine.
In strange contrast to the career of
Mrs. Gilbert was that of Madame Jan
auschek, who passed on to the Great
Beyond a few days before the death of
the elder actress. Not until the closing
days of Mrs. Gilbert's long life did she
reach the height of her fame, and so
quick was the transition from life to
death that the spontaneous tributes of
thousands whose hearts she had
touched stil rang in her ears when the
final summons came. And yet never in
her long career until a short time be
fore her death did Mrs. Gilbert ap
proach the heights of fame which the
Bohemian actress had stormed and
captured nearly a generation ago.
More than forty years ago, while Sirs.
Gilbert, modest, painstaking and sin
cere, was playing her minor part in the
drama of life as well as in that of the
stage. Emperors, Kings and nobles in
all of the prominent capitals of the Old
"World were at the feet of the Bohemian
girL The triumphs of the Old "World
were repeated "when she came to Amer
ica. The great artiste played Brunhilde,
Deborah and Mary Stuart as no one
else could play them and the world
paid due homage for the entertain
ment, but the limit of success which
was withheld until late In life for Mrs.
Gilbert came earlier for Madame Jan
auschek, and poverty, distress and
obscurity embittered the closing years
of a life that was tragic In other than a
theatrical sense. There was deep
meaning in the words of Milton Nobles,
himself a victim of fame that has fled,
when, speaking over the bier of the.
dead actress, he said:
If another object lesson were needed to Im
press upon us tho ephemereal quality o that
substancetess something which we call fame,
here It lies. If th! onco great woman had
been summoned 20 years ago. In tho zenith
of her powers, great ones of the earth would
have been glad to do her homage. Now the
only ones to do her reverence Is this group
of her fell ow -craftsmen In a strange, or at
least a foreign land, who knew and loved her
for herself alone.
"All the world's a stage," and in cast
ing these two notable actresses, the Al
mighty seems to have placed in their
hands parts which in real life were In
a sense not dissimilar from those with
which they proved so successful on the
stage. All of the later years of Janau
itehek's life were filled with tragedy,
vhile good, old Mrs. Gilbert, never
rising to heights of greatness, lived out
er long life of patient endeavor and
onest effort with no haunting memory
of departed greatness or Ingratitude
from a world which might have forgot
ten her. "Why," said Janauschek in
her bitterness, when asked to appear
Iii public a few years ago, "shall I come
ajjaln to what has forgotten me?"
"Death is kind," we are told, and cer
tain It Is the Grim Specter" was kind
to both of these grand old actresses.
Kind In relieving poor, old Janauschek,
haunted by dreams of a glorious past
and realizing to the fullest extent that
"memory Is the only friend that grief
can call its own," and kind to dear, old
Mrs. Gilbert by taking her so quickly
to her final rest, while the luster of
fame was still bright around her.
"THE WONDER OF THE AGES."
A strange story so old that it Is
new pulsing with mystery, glowing
with heroism, intense with religious fer
vor and withal abounding In romance,
is that of "Saint Joan of Arc," told. in
the current number of Harper'6 Maga
zine by Mark Twain. As painted by
his hand culled rather, and presented
In his own Inimitable style by this
author the presentment of the strange
and beautiful history of this strange
and beautiful young girl gives ub a
vivid picture Qf a career and personal
ity of so extraordinary a character that
we are helped to accept the statements
as actualities .by the very" fact that- they
arc beyond the .Inventive reach of fic
tion. ; The story as presented finds, the Offi
cial Record of the Trials and Rehabili
tation of Joan of Arc, that was buried
lb. the archives of France from 1456
uptll Qulcherat dug it out and gave it
to; the world two generations ago.
At the age of 16 this wonderful figure
in history lived In a dull little village
Sn the frontier of civilization, a child
f no promise. Her entire stock of
larning consisted in a knowledge of
?ier catechism and her prayers, and the
abulous histories of the saints, all of
Which was acquired without the ability
-to read. At 17, having "heard the
heavenly voices" and -overcoming all
obstacles in obeying them, she was
made Commander-in-Chief of the first
army she had ever seen, with a Prince
of the royal house and the veteran Gen
erals of France as subordinates. Thus
equipped, she marched to Orleans, car
ried the commanding fortresses by
storm in three desperate assaults, and
In ten days raised a siege which had
defied the might of France for seven
months.
Then followed the remarkable cam
paign of seven weeks, with the mighty
events of which history has dealt In
detail. The great campaign of the
Loire again followed; and at its close
Joan put the crown upon the head of
the King at Rheims. She asked for
herself nothing as a reward, but begged
that as recompense for the service she
had rendered the taxes of her native
village might be forever remitted. The
request was granted, and for 360 years
the promise was kept. She asked one
other boon, the privilege of going back
to Tier native village and again taking
up her humble life with her mother" and
the friends of her childhood. This
prayer was not granted. Hampered and
controlled by a feeble King, she was
not allowed to follow her own Inspira
tion. Defeat and disaster followed.
History gives the events In cold and
cruel detail. Her dreary and hideous
captivity, covering in all a period of
about one year; her trial, occupying the
last three months of the time, before a
formidable array of ecclesiastical
Judges; with whom, friendless and
alone, she disputed the ground Inch by
inch, without the help or guidance of a
copy of the charges 'brought against
her or a rescript of the complex and
voluminous dally proceedings; fighting
that long battle serene and undismayed
against the colossal odds against her,
she presents a spectacle not dim and
indistinct through the mist of the cen
turies, but strong and clear In the
white light of Its pathos and Its sub
limity. Truly, as said by this clear
sighted chronicler. "It has nowhere Its
mate either in the annals of fact or in
the Inventions of fiction." Finally con
victed through priestly treachery, she
went to her martyrdom with the peace
of God In her tired heart, and on her
Hps kind words and loving prayers for
the craven King she had crowned and
the nation of lngrates she had saved.
Twenty-five years later the process of
rehabilitation was instituted In obedi
ence to. a growing doubt of the validity
of a sovereignty that had been rescued
by a person who had been proven by
the church to be a witch and a familiar
of evil spirits. In the testimony thus
adduced the moving and beautiful his
tory of Joan of Arc Is laid bare from
her childhood to her martyrdom, and
from the verdict, of persecution she
rises "stainlessly pure, in mind, body
and heart, in speech and deed and
spirit, and will so endure to the end
of time."
Scanning this testimony and linking
it with the events of the two brief
years in which she is known to history,
we can well coincide with the state
ment that Joan of Arc is the "Wonder
of the Ages." And when we tnslder
that she did all of the things upon
which her renown rests while she was
still a young girl, we recognize that
while our race continues she will be the
"Riddle of the Ages."
This is Mark Twain's estimate of
Joan of Arc. It is an estimate with.
which all students of history must in
the main agree. Before, the record of
her life the ordinary statements of
cause and effect fall to the ground un
proven. Labor as we may, we cannot
read the; riddle of her strange, forceful
equipment, of her phenomenal wisdom.
Her career is amazing. Its moving
forces are beyond our comprehension.
Deeply religious, she believed that she
held dally speech with the angels; that
she saw them face to face; that they
counseled her, comforted her and
brought commands to her direct from
God. All of our philosophy has not
been able to give a better or more
plausible reason for the marvelous and
sudden development of the tremendous
and subtle powers of Joan of Arc than
she herself gave In her unwavering and
child-like faith in the heavenly origin
of the voices that she followed a faith
that no threat of death or torture not
even death itself, compassed by the
flames could drive from her conscious
ness. Taking all of this and much more
Into account her origin, youth, sex, il
literacy, early environment and the ob
structing conditions under which she
exploited her high gifts and made her
conquests in the field and before the
courts, Mark Twain concludes hl3 ab
sorbingly Interesting presentment of :
Joan of Arc with the unqualified dec
laration that she Is "easily and by far
the most extraordinary person the hu
man race has ever produced."
David P. Barrows, general superin
tendent of education for the Philippine
Islands, makes a highly Interesting- and
hopeful report on the progress of edu
cational work there. By his statement
It appears that there were, In March
and April of this year, 227,600 children
In the public schools of the Islands. Of
these', 220,000 were in some one of the
three years of the primary course. Mr.
Barrows says that the number of puplis
In the primary schools must be about
doubled before the Instruction Is placed
within the reach of every Filipino child
between the ages of G and 14 years.
That is, enough schoolhouses and
teachers, school furniture and books to
give continuous schooling to 400,000 chil
dren will be required. "If this stand
ard can be reached and maintained for
a period of ten years," continues Mr.
Barrows, "we will, broadly speaking,
have no illiterate youth among the Fili
pino people."
The appearance of Father De Smet's
Memoirs, in four volumes, makes a
highly important contribution to the
history of the Northwest. Pierre-Jean
De Smet was a native of Belgium, and
came to the United States in 1821
then in. his 21st year. As a leader of
Catholic missionaries he came out to
the Oregon Country in 1841, and spent
in work in this region a large portion
of the remainder of his life. By all the
early residents he was known, and he
is remembered by all who survive. He
died at St. Louis in 1873. He rendered
much service to the Americans In the
Oregon Country, and helped so far as
he was able to confirm this region to
the United States. These elaborate
memoirs will fill an important place In
our pioneer history. .
There is spmethlng really magnificent
in the way the Young Men's Demo
cratic Club comes to the front with a
resolution indorsing the "heroic efforts
of our Democratic Sheriff and Prosecut
ing Attorney in the support of law and
order in this community." If the he
roic Prosecuting Attorney has hereto
fore seemed to falter In his unselfish
and disinterested purpose to procure
the indictment and punishment of Bla
zler et al. for gambling, the incentive
for him now to do his . duty without
fear or favor is Turnished. He is backed
up by the Young Men's Democratic
Club, fifteen strong.
If Senator Piatt is politically dead he
doesn't know it. He had a candidate
for postmaster of New York City. Gov
ernor Odeli had another. The President
yesterday selected the man favored by
the Senator. Now Piatt Is encouraged
to push his fight for the re-election of
Depew, and proposes, If he does not
succeed, to "hang up his fiddle." It
looks as If Senator Depew would go to
"Washington for another six years, and
the great danger that the Senate will
otherwise relapse Into undeserved som
berness and undisturbed gloom will be
averted.
Secretary Hitchcock comes from Re
publican Missouri, and yet he appears
to be about the only member of the
present Cabinet who will probably not
be In the new Cabinet. Perhaps the
President feels that he squared ac
counts with Missouri by making that
record-breaking excursion to the expo
sition; or perhaps Missouri doesn't care
whether Hitchcock stays or goes. Or
perhaps again there was sufficient glory
In the mere fact that Missouri went
Republican. If Missouri is satisfied,
the country at large will endeavor to
be content
"Gentlemen America," said Burke in
one of his great speeches, when he was
dealing In the House of Commons with
the problems that led the colonies to
the Revolution. "Taxation No Tyr
anny" was Johnson's theme, when deal
ing with the problem of "America's
rebellion." The point Is in the fact that
the English colonies In America were
called "America" by England's great
est writers. So when we call our
country America we are but following
the English example; and the protest
of Sir Edward Clark, M. P., is a little
late.
The German press, we are told, was
not especially pleased with President
Roosevelt's recent address on Frederick
the Great; but the Emperor takes pains
to declare his satisfaction. As things
stand In Germany, the President will
doubtless be willing to let It go at that.
Tom "Watson has originality, and
piquancy with it. Bryan has frequent
ly referred to the crime of 1873; and
now "Watson characterizes the perform
ance of Democracy at St. Louis, which
Bryan condoned, as "the crime of
1904."
Before Mr. Bryan starts in upon his
chosen task of reorganizing the Demo
cratic party, it will be well for him to
Institute a few Inquiries as to what
there is to reorganize.
Seventeen entire minutes were con
sumed by the defense In its testimony
in the land-fraud cases. "Walgamot ap
pears to have looked upon It as sheer
waste of time.
After thirty years In the United
States Senate, Senator Cockrell now
has his choice of two jobs. It is worth,
while, after all, to be a Senator.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
Magazine Stories a la Mode.
As Algy jogged along to the meet, he
was In a vile temper. It was really too
bad of Aunt Sarah to saddle him with the
care of this clumsy Irish cousin. He stole
a glance at the cousin as she bumped
awkwardly on the back of Harkaway, his
best hunter. She the cousin wore a pic
ture hat, an old jacket, guiltless of style,
a skirt absolutely unfit for a trolley-car,
and slippers!
Algy shuddered. He, the pride of the
Long Island Thrusters, the most punctil
ious New Ycrker that ever wore pink, to
be doomed to no better fate than to look
after a dowdy girl, who evidently had
never seen a horse outside the shafts of
a Jaunting-car. Algy fumed, and the
glances of some of the other Thrustera
didn't tend to lessen his rage.
"Will the dogs wait for us when we
come to a fence?" asked the Irish cousin.
Algy shuddered. Dogs! Will they wait
for us! With an effort he controlled his
horror, and secretly hoped that Nora for
his Cousin, like all other Irish girls, bore
that name would stay Inconspicuously
behind.
The experienced reader has already
guessed that, as Algy was hesitating
about taking a ten-foot wall, topped with
barbed wire, with a bad take-off and a
drop of 35 feet on landing, Nora went past
him and "cleared tho obstruction like a
bird." That was the last Algy saw of her,
for, with all the rest of tho field, he was
hopelessly pounded. From Jack "Vander
payne, tho master, he learned that Nora
was the pride of the West Meath, and had
Jumped the River Boyne on a bet.
Algy married his cousin, and they have
hunted happily ever since.
Upton might like to have it changed to
tho TJsonia's Cup.
A two-faced baby has been born in Mas
sachusetts. Yes. It's a girl.
"The Seattle Times boasts that that
paper goes to India," says the 'Argus,
adding that "unfortunately only a few
copies are meant."
Thomas P. Wood, a Chicago carpenter,
has asked the courts for an Injunction re
straining his wife from talking. Does be
want the woman to buret?
A new college game Is described by the
Topeka State Journal, which says: "A
Jamestown school is having a two weeks'
vacation. The girls are practicing basket
ball, and the boys are In the cornfield with
the basket."
General Nozl shows his utter unfit
ness to rank with the great modern
, commanders. Here it is getting along
in December and he hasn't yet declared
his intention of eating his Christmas
dinner in Port Arthur.
Parisian -telephone subscribers maintain
a paper for the purpose of expressing their
opinions of the hello girls, and on other
matters. To obtain perfectly unbiased ar
ticles, we hope the editor refrains from
having a phone in his office.
It may seem rather late in the day to
express our sympathy for Adam, but
we can't help being sorry as we think
how hard it was for him to sneak home
quietly at this time of year when the
leaves are dry and rustling.
In a description of Rosemary Hall, a
girl's boarding-school at Greenwich,
Conn., we note that " a staff of liveried
men servants wait upon the smart
maidens, and an effort is made to make
the school as homelike as possible."
It has been decided by District Judge
Hazel, of New York, that Maraschino
cherries are subject to a duty of 20 per
cent Instead of 30 per cent as contend
ed by the Collector of Customs at New
York. Now you can have 'em in your
cocktails.
Among the scraps of foreign news col
lected by the New York Evening Sun this
gem shines serene: "A dairy maid has
been arrested at Cologne for bathing her
self daily In the milk before It was sold,
because she had read that milk baths
were godd for the complexion." Boil your
dairy maids!
The inventor of tho name "Near Silk"
was a benefactor to tho world. Already
we are having neardiamonds and near
leather, and the expression is likely to
spread Into all fields. Soon we may be
having games of near-ball, and in church
we may be listening to near-sermons. (We
have these things already, of course, but
not the name.)
Edith M. Thomas addresses Christen
dom through the columns of the New
York Evening Post, taunting It or
them with cowardice In not emulat
ing the Crusaders and streaming forth
to hurl the foe from tho "Christian
fortress' of Port Arthur. Whoa, Pe
! gasus; the ikons are supposed to be
looking after the Christian fortress.
One of those stories that can only be In
vented by a genius is told by the London
Chronicle about the composers Sir Alex
ander Mackenzie and the late Sir Arthur
Sullivan. Sir Arthur wanted to direct his
fellow-musician to a house of which he
had forgotten the number, so he told Sir
Alexander that the doorscraper was in
E-flat, and that worthy kicked every
scraper In the street until he came to the
right one.
London Is excited over the new "Si
amese" twins from Austria. As these
twins are both girls, a certain amount of
wonder is to be expected. How In the
world do they agree on questions of dress?
Suppose JosefaMhinks that pink becomes
her, while Rosa Insists upon blue who la
to arbitrate the dispute? What domestic
Hague dare intervene? And since Josef a
is tall, while Rosa is short, there must be
twoIfferent 3tyles of dressing. But so
many avenues of speculation open up that
it is useless to think of the sisters any
longer.
We cannot sympathize with the young
man who followed an American chorus
girl around London and Paris until he saw
her buy a pound of sausage in a butcher's
shop, and was then choked off. A man
with a particle of sense would have had
his desire to wed the girl infinitely in
creased by seeing her make such, a pur
chase. Is not the sausage the symbol, un
official perhaps, but none the less, the true
Bymbbl of home 'life? One cannot fry
sausages in housekeeping rooms; the
neighbors would kick. It is only In tho
privacy of the home that the sausage can
be cooked and enjoyed as its merits de
serve. The young man should have seen
that by this one purchase the chorus girl
displayed traits of economy, simplicity
and housewlfeliness, as well as evidences
of a good digestion, which means a good
temper. And she was already beautiful
in his eyes. What a pearl of a girl! And
he abandoned the chase because she didn't
live on lobsters. Folly, thy name is Man--In-search-of-a-wife!
WEXFORD JONES.
CALIFORNIA. AT THE '05 F'Am
Rufus P. "Jennings in Chamber of Com
merco Bulletin.
The Interest which California is tak
ing in the Lewis and Clark Exposition
is largely, In my opinion, an evidence
of the spirit of co-operation which pre
vails between Oregon and California. I
do not think it is founded upon the
purely commercial desire to exploit
our goods, but rather to pay a tribute
to our great sister state, and give an
earnest expression of our -regard. The
time was when there were many who
asserted that tho interests of Califor
nia. Oregon and Washington were in
a measure rival Interests. Now a broad
er, mere liberal view has happily come
to pass, and almost any fair-minded
citizen of these states will be dispo3eJ
to admit that what is of benefit to one
portion of the Pacific Coast is of ben
efit to all, and that should misfortune
overtake any part of the Coast It would
inevitably be shared in by tho entire
Coast. .
There's room for every one. What we
want is to get the population rolling
westward. We want more manufac
tories and more people. We want morn
men to cultivate the -soil, and mora
wealth to develop our natural ra
sources. It is almost two years ago
since President Roosevelt, appreciating
our vast wealth in "natural resources,
said that the Pacific Ocean was des
tined to lead In carrying the world's
commerce. It was not a prophecy; It
was a statement of fact. We of Califor
nia realize how greatly the Lewis and
Clark Centennial will hasten our des?
tiny, and the plans now laid bespeak
an enthusiastic co-operation on the
part of California in your great Cen
tennial, which, in a way, belongs in
part to us, becauso it is of the Pacific
Coast. We-jnust all pull together to
rapidly Increase. Arf yet the total Im
ports of the Pacific Coast for the year
ending June 30, 1004, were $57,497,635.
as again3t $779,237,182 for the At
lantic Coast ports, and that our ex
ports were 5C5.752.816, as against $597.
124,803 on the other sido of the Conti
nents That is. the Atlantic Coast sends
out and brings In about $12 worth of
goods for every dollar on the Pacific.
Yet there are those who confidcntly
state that at no distant time the Pacinc
Coast will lead.
California will be present on the
opening of the Exposition. President
Goode has tendered the California Pro
motion Committee, which represents
the commercial bodies of California, an
Invitation to be present on this occa
sion. The committee, on behalf of the
State of California, has accepted tho
Invitation, and Is most deeply appre
ciative of the courtesy. The leading or
ganizations throughout California have
Indorsed this excursion to be given un
der the auspices of the committee. Sev
eral special trains will take represen
tative business men of all parts of Cal
ifornia to the Exposition. Our orators,
the Governor of California, the presi
dents of cur two leading universities,
will be among those who take part.
President David R. Francis, of the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition, will also
be with us, as well as editors of lead
ing1 Eastern magazines, newspaper cor
respondents and others. In fact, this
excursion will be California's official
call upon the Exposition. It will be the
largest and most representative excur
sion which has ever gone out of Cali
fornia, and, needless to say will be
conducted with that observance of eti
quette requisit upon an occasion of
such importance; yet it will not be
lacking in that friendly warmth be
tween those who have mutual respect
and hold their aims in common.
I have been very pleased to note that
the exhibit which will be made by.Cal
ifornia will be fresh and original, ao
that those who have this year visited
the St.- Louis Fair will sec California,
differently exhibited in general at
Portland. Most liberal sums . have al
ready been appropriated in "further
ance o special exhibits at the Expo
sition. Many have taken very early ac
tion in this matter, and the work of the
Lewis and Clark representatives, who
have been In California calling their
further attention to the Exposition has
been most fruitful In Its results. The
press throughout California is very
generous in Its notice toward the Lewis
and Clark Exposition, and has urged
ur citizens generally to take a part.
The State of California, it is believed,
will make a good appropriation. Gov
ernor Pardee, who has already visited
Portland and conferred with President
Goode, is heartily In favor of every
possible co-operation by California.
The California Promotion Committee
and its affiliated organizations through
out the state will be active on behalf
of the Lewis and Clark Centennial, and
while space in this article does not
permit me to enumerate all tho details,
I am clad to assure the men of Port
land and Oregon that California will
bo represented at their Exposition in a
manner in accordance with her traditions.
Matrimonial "Ad" in Japan.
New York Tribune.
"I am a very pretty girl. My hair Is as
wavy as a cloud. My complexion has the
brilliancy and softness of a flower. My
expression is as mobile as the leaf of tne
weeping willow. r My brown eyes are like
two crescents of the moon. I have enough
worldly goods to pass happily through life
with my husband, hand in hand, gazing
at the flowers by day and the moon by
night. If this should meet the eye of a
man who is intelligent, amiable and of
good address, I will be his for life, and
repose with him later In a tomb of red
-marble." There were 346,000 marriages
in Japan last year, but for all that such
advertisements as the above appear every
day in the Japanese papers.
When the Canal Is Completed.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Portland Exposition has stimu
lated the people of San Francisco to
plan for a World's Fair on a very large
scale in 1913. That will be the 400th
anniversary of the discovery of the
Pacific Ocean by "Vasco Nunez de Bal
boa on the 25th of September. It will
be called the Balboan Exposition and
will be made broadly international,
like those of St. Louis and Chicago.
The thrifty San Francisco people
have another string to their bow. They
expect the Panama Canal to be com
pleted about 1913, and they Intend to
make their fair a celebration of that
event also. There is a good deal in
this.
By Any Other Name Would Smell as
Rank.
Albany Democrat.
What's In a name? The full names
of two gentlemen attracting a great
deal of attention in Portland just now
are:
Stephen A. Douglas Puter.
Horace Greeley McKInley.
Some Jamaican Negro Sayings. .
No ebery t'ing you say good fe talk.
No trow away dirty water befo you hab
clean.
One fief no like fo see 'nodder t'ief
carry big bag.
Shoe alone know If stocking hab hole
Sleep h'ab no massa.
Why Is It?
Boston Christian Register.
Why Is it that popular orators, whether
lay or clerical, are commonly men of
large girth and good digestion, while
great philosophers are often of diminu
tive size and small vitality?
Bread Tickets and White Chips, r
Atchison Globe.
A dollar is a large amount to pay for
bread, but Is mighty Insignificant la a
poker game.