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PORTLAND. SUNDAY. JUNE 4. 1003.
NEW FACTOR IN THE RELIGIOUS
WORLD.
The religion of Japan, if it can be
called a religion, partakes largely of the
nature of the worship of ancestors. Su
perhuman influence is attributed to the
Emperor, and in the Emperor are em
bodied the virtues of the race. These are
derived from ancestors, and have been
carried forward through generations to
the present time. The idea is that they
are concentrated in the Emperor as in
the Christian world all merit centers in
the founder of Christianity. It pre
sents at once a great phase of morals
and of religion to the general world
not -wholly new, but coming with a
force that now arrests the attention of
the rest of mankind.
It is but another phase of i'the eter
nal whisper of God in man." It is
identification of the human race with
Deity in another way than that .to
which we have been accustomed in the
Western world. From the Semitic races
we have our idea of the immanence of
Deity in man, and at the same time of
Deity somewhat and somewhere In the
world external to man. The Japanese
do not make this distinction. This sub
Ject, to us complex, they consider as all
one.
After all, no one can say that there
is. any real manifestation of Deity ex
cept through man. So far as we can
see or Judge, all operations of the uni
verse, except In or through the human
spirit, are merely mechanical. It Is,
therefore, through man himself, and
only through man, that God really Is
revealed.
From this point of view we- gain
some comprehension of the idea, singu
lar and strange to our minds, but ren
dered perfectly intelligible through
study of religion In Its historical and
comparative aspects, that It is due to
the virtues of their Emperor, as the
representative of their race that the
people of Japan have been carried tri
umphantly through their perils. There
Is no recognition in this scheme of any
divine being in the external world su
perior to man. Distinguished men, em
bodying the virtues and standing for the
achievements of the race, are the ob
jects of reverence and even of -worship.
It is in a sense, deification of man
himself. It is not a new subject to the
student of the history of universal re
ligion and of national religions; it Is
only one of the manifestations of the
religious spirit universal in man.
In Germany, at the time of the latest
victory over France, thanks were re
turned to the God of the Fatherland, to
whom It was attributed. The tutelar)'
Deity of France was for the moment
under eclipse. Japan now gives utter
ance to a similar feeling, through other
expression and other symbols. Different
races have widely different conceptions
of the relation of man to the Infinite.
No one of them can be wholly true, or
more than an approximate truth that
all strive vainly to reach.
Nothing Is more certain than that the
ascendancy of Japan and her influence
In the Eastern world will in time pro
duce great effect on the course of relig
ious as of other ideas everywhere
among men.
Of one Dr. Edgar P. Hill, a certain
quack doctor of divinity. He is em
ployed by the political banking syndi
cate of Portland to preach their pluto
cratic gospel. He spends much of his
time, we may suppose, under direction
of his employers. In railing at The Ore
gonian. However, it matters little or
nothing to this newspaper. The Orego
nian says little about him. for he can
not cure his propensity. Let us not
blame him. He Is" or those who "think
because they are virtuous there shall
be no more cakes and ale." And yet
we suppose there still will be cakes and
ale. As a malignant reiler and common
villfier. Dr. Hill may get a little tempor
ary notice, in his own circle. But the
narrow spirit he -evinces never will con
trol Oregon. There is a morality here
so much higher than his own that he
never will be able to reach It. or even
to conceive It. He will serve, as an
ordinary "humdrum preacher for pluto
crats, who oppress everybody- they can
ftach, and yet dally thank God they
are not as other'inen' arc. Brother Hill,
follower of Calvin, In Calvin's place,
would have burned Servetus, as Calvin
did. He is of those who suppose they
have all the morality and all the virtue.
The rest of us, the common people, who
do not subscribe to the "Westminster
catechism in its entirety, .who do not
think much of the doctrine of the fall
of man and of his redemption through
quack doctors of divinity. Brother Hill
undoubtedly thinks a bad lot. Hence
his diatribes.
THIS ALSO MAY INTEREST YOU.
The Oregonian has recently un
masked a band of political and monop
olistic Jobbers, who during three years
have been endeavoring to control the
affairs of state, county ami city; who
have sent some of their own chief men
to the Legislature for the purpose; who
have tried to frame legislation with a
view of promoting their own Interests
further, through seizure of additional
streets and extension of franchises
which they hold at millions but for
which they never paid the public a dol
lar; who are and for three years have
been, "running" a newspaper for these
and their other various purposes all
the time striving for plutocratic mo-'
noiJoly, yet pretending to be the great
and exclusive champions of popular
rights. There is an additional phase of
their action to which attention should
also be called.
Nearly every- one of these plutocratic
magnates is or has professed to be a
Republican. Ladd, -Bates. Mills. Alns
worth, Lewis this is not the whole
list are in this undertaking. Though
professing to be Republicans' and
claiming the support of the Republican
party for one or another of themselves
or associates, when they can get places
on the party ticket, they have placed
their paper in the hands of a couple
of Bryan Democrats, who run it under
instructions as a Democratic organ.
The expectation Is not to make money
by the newspaper or to do a. regular
newspaper business. Promotion of
various schemes, through politics, fran
chises and monopoly, is the basis of the
undertaking. It is believed that this
can be done more effectively through
pretensions to "independence," while
supporting Democratic candidates and
Democratic purposes, than in any other
way.
So now you have explanation of the
existence of this organ of plutocracy,
and of the course it pursues of oppos
ing the Republican party though It
always has the effrontery to try to con
trol Republican nominations, and it
gets places on the Republican ticket
for one or another of its own group,
whenever it can. "What axes It has to
be ground the public has been made
aware of during a while past. It will
yet have more axes, of course. It tries
to maintain some kind of footing In the
Republican party, while publishing a
Democratic and monopolistic newspa
perprofessing entire and exclusive de
votion to. popular rights and to the
public good, and yet endeavoring to
rake into plutocratic coffers every
thing in sight. We believe no other
Instance is presented of a group of Re
publican bankers, politicians and mo
nopolists running a Democratic news
paper. CASSINI'S AND RUSSIA'S DOWNFALL.
Count Casslni. Russian Ambassador
to the United States, will be succeeded
In that position on July 1 by Baron de
Rosen, -who was Russian Minister- at
Toklo at the outbreak of the present
war lr the Far East. Both men are
familiar with conditions existing In the
Orient, the former having come to his
present position from Peking, where he
gained a reputation by promotion of his
country's interests. He Is accredited
with having at least suggested the ulti
matum addressed to the Mikado in 1S95
by RuBsla. Germany and France, which
wrested from Japan the fruits of her
brilliant victory over China. As mat
ters have turned out, the bitterest
enemy of Russia could not have made
a suggestion so disastrous ultimately to
her interests as that with which Count
Casslni Is accredited. By the terms of
this ultimatum. Japan was required to
cancel the most Important part of the
second article of the treaty of Shimono
seki, by which China, as the price of
peace, ceded to her victorious foe in
perpetuity and full sovereignty the
Llao Tung Peninsula and a strip of the
Manchurian Coast running from the
lower waters of the Talu River on the
east to the middle of the channel of the
Liab River cn the west
This ultimatum, so galling to Japan
and so utterly unjust, as gauged by
precedent, was based upon her inability
at the time to cope, on the, basis of
military and naval strength, with the
dictators. The prodigious recuperative
power of Japan was not reckoned with.
Neither was the Intense devotion and
patriotism of her people considered.
She was merely. In the eyes of these
great powers, an upstart nation whose
pretensions they felt called upon to re
buke, and whose growing Importance
It was Incumbent upon them to check.
The effect was to make Japan the
deadly enemy of Russia and to set her
determinedly to the task of regaining
her own.
This being his record In the diplo
matic service in the Far East, the opin
ions of Count Cassini upon the, present
situation there will carry littie weight.
As expressed to President Roosevelt,
he yet sees hope of victory for the Rus
sian arms in Manchuria, and thinks
that Russia could advantageously con
tinue the war Indefinitely, rather than
submit to any terms of peace which
Japan would now make. The Presi
dent, on the contrary, sees In every
additional day of the war's duration a
possible, and indeed certain. Increase in
the indemnity that Japan will demand,
and thinks that the sooner the war Is
ended the better for Russia, even
though the terms of the Mikado, In the
light of the tremendous victory gained
in the battle of the Sea of Japan, would
be veo severe.
Having dwelt for a considerable
period in the Orient In a high official
capacity. It Is evident that Count Cas
sini became possessed of the feeling of
superiority of the Russian people, and
especially of the Russian government,
over the Oriental people and their gov
ernments:" The Ineflllcency of the Chi
nese government fostered this idea, and
by easy transition It extended to
Japan. Rude as has been the awaken
ing in regard to the latter. It is evident
that It has not yet extended to official
Russia. Count Casslni himself Is
stunned rather than awakened by the
tremendous reaction of his attempt to
rob Japan ten years ago. And no won
der, since this attempt has cost the
Russian empire scores of thousands of
soldiers and hundreds of millions of
rubles, and has enabled Japan to ac
quire by conquest xnuch more than the
canceled article of the Shimonoseki
treaty gave her. and to humiliate Rus
sia before the entire world.
THE NEW FINANCE.
It appears that the Equitable Assur
ance Society belongs neither to Mr.
Hyde nor to Mr. Alexander, but to the
astute financiers who have for some
years sat on its board of directors and
who have permitted the figureheads to
believe that they were in actual con
trol. If we have learned anything from
the Frlck report and subsequent devel
opments. It Is that Hyde Is a fool.
which we already knew, and Alexander
& high-salaried- nobody which many sus
pected who has been used as a pawn
in the great financial game played by
able and seasoned gamesters like
Schlff, Harrlman and Gould. Mr. Al
exander and Mr. Hyde have organized
their little petty larceny schemes by
which they acquired a fat rake-off for
throwing open the doors of the over
flowing Equitable treasury to the Wall-
street wizards who were buying stocks.
floating bonds, organizing trust com
panies, consolidating banks and build
ing railroads and other things all over
the United States. Whenever the real
players wanted to further some gigan
tic scheme that required use of millions
of somebody else's money, they allowed
their puppets to create a syndicate,
known by the pompous title of "James
H. Hyde and Associates." They threw
a few thousand in the way of the
Frenchified dandy, whose chief notions
of inance were obtained by a spectac
ular drive through Wall street behind
a tandem team festooned with hot
house Violets: and the young Jehu of
Insurance considerately "whacked up"
with his friend and preceptor, the 5100,
000 Alexander, who mourned as he tear
fully icast up the figures of his swell
ing bank account that there were no
more worlds for him to conquer. If Mr.
Gould wanted J5O.O0O.O00 to build an ex
tension to the Western Pacific, he men
tioned the matter to a few of his as
sociates In the Equitable, or some
other company, and the key to the
vaults was promptly turned over to
him. If Mr. Harrlman longed to oust
Mr. Hill from control of the Northern
Securities Company, he casually re
marked to Mr. Schlff that a few mil
lions would do the trick, and Mr. Schlff,
who is a director In the Equitable, and
a few other concerns that handle money
that is yours and mine and the other
fellow's, did the rest; Mr. Hill, in self
defense, was obliged to hurry around to
the private entrance to Mr. Morgan's
bank and see about JL This Is what we
have long admiringly termed high
finance the ability and opportunity to
conduct immense operations in the
speculative and Investment worldand
to make the rank outsider put up the
money.
The Equitable row has taken a new
and startling turn. It is, in its present
phase, the mast portentous happening
In our recent fiscal history. It throws
a clear light on many things that a
frenzied literateur had heretofore
dragged Into the general view, but
which the public was skeptical about.
This is not to say that what Lawson
said was. true in detail; but it was In
essence. Gigantic sums of money are
piled up in New York by appeals to the
thrift and prudence of the moderately
well-to-do who desire to lay by a store
for a rainy day. This great treasure is
doing nobody any good in the cob-
webbed vaults of the insurance com
panles; so related trust companies are
organized and arc given in some part
the direction of the Insurance com
pany's Investments. In the case of the
Equitable, we are told that the side
schemes of "James H. Hyde and Asso
ciates" were on the whole profitable to
the insurance company; but we know,
too. that they were profitable to Hyde
et al.. or would have been If they had
not been compelled to disgorge. What
service has President Alexander ren
dered to the Equitable Assurance So
ciety that he should be paid 3100,000 a
year and vastly larger "perquisites"?
What has young Mr. Hyde done but In
calculable mischief? What has Tarbell
done to earn his immense salary but
quarrel with Hyde? Are the abilities
of these men so superior to the merits
of men struggling along on a moderate
income, doing their duty as they see It,
paying their debts, abusing no man's
trust, and devoting to their private
gain no funds placed In their hands for
safekeeping and legitimate accretion.
that 600.000 policy-holders should allow
them such enormous regular and Irreg
ular remuneration? Can any man earn
$100,000 per year salary? And, If he
can. Is he entitled to put all his avail
able relatives on his clients' payroll at
proportionate wage? And if some men
can honestly earn $100,000 and aid their
family and dependents to get' a great
deal more, does It follow that men like
Alexander and Hyde are In that class?
We are told that the Equitable and
all the great Insurance companies are
entirely solvent, and we believe It In
deed, there is no doubt about It It Is
the business of the management to keep
them solvent, for neither Mr. Gould nor
Mr. Harrlman. nor Mr. Schlff, nor Mr.
Frlck. nor any of the great operators.
can have any possible Interest In con
trlbutlng to its Insolvency. But It Is
not consoling to think that the chief
problem to be solved In the Equitable
Is not whether the pollcy-hojders shall
direct the Investment and conserve the
Interest of 5400.000,000 assets, but
whether It shall be done by Mr. Gould
or Mr. Schlff.
THE GERMAN IMPERIAL MARRIAGE.
All Germany Is agog and all Ber
lin is ablaze with enthusiasm. The
royal bride, 6O0n to be the Imperial
wife of .Crown Prince Frederick Will
iam. came In state to the capital -of the
German Empire, and in a few days the
marriage vows of the future Emperor
and Empress of Germany will be
pledged not only "to each other, but
to the empire and to posterity. Fair
and gentle, full of hope and already
crowned with love, this royal bride of
18 years entered the capital gaily dec
orated in her honor, her path strewn
with roses: children sang her greet
ing, and with pomp and heraldry came.
according to ancient custom, trades peo
pie and artisans of all classes to swell
her train. The carriage In which she
rode was "new" when, in 1733, the fu
ture Queen Louise made her entry In
It into the city, the bride of the great
grandfather of the present Crown
Prince. Some of the ceremonies attend
ant upon this event were quaint with
the touch of nearly five centuries. Some
were tender with the sweet simplicity
of childhood's greetings. All were gor
geous with military pomp and glowing
with the glory of empire.
Better than ;all. the marriage, of
-which this was the opening pageant, is
said to be founded In love. In this fact
lies its augury of happiness, Lack of
this controlling power made -the mar
riage of Frederick the Great the most
unholy mockery, though celebrated
with great pomp" and ceremony. Its
benediction made the marriage of Fred
erick William and -Victoria; Princess-
Royal of England the grandparents of
the present Crown Prince a happy one,
though hedged round about with sor
row and ending In bitter disappoint
ment. The best wishes of all Christen
dom go with the youthful Crown Prince
and his more youthful bride. May the
cares of empire not come to them too
soon, and may its responsibilities, when
they come, be faithfully discharged.
JAPAN AFTER THE WAR.
After the events of the last week the
probable course of Japan has become
a matter of immediate concern to all
nations Interested In the Orient. It is a
delicate matter to make forecasts at
any time. It is' much more so when
factors of opinion are not decisive. Still,
by degrees, the sky Is clearing and
outlines, even though distant, may be
discerned. It Is certain that, whatever
course Japan decides on.In which com
mand of the sea figures, she has force
to back It .Every nation possessing a
fleet however powerful Its units or its
aggregate, recognizes the danger, if not
the madness, of inviting warfare with
the sun power of the East There
fore, the question of the future Is what
Japan is likely to do of her own free
will, and In pursuit of her own policy,
not, as at the close of the Chinese war.
ten years ago, what she can be com
pelled to do. Thus she has already
gained one of the main objects for
which she says that she took up the
Russian gage of battle, namely, recog
nition as a world power, of even stand
ing with the greatest. So she need not
raise again the question of the national
standing of her yellow race. Again,
she has eliminated all danger of Rus
sian rivalry and domination in Corea
and In China. Port Arthur Is now her
own military and naval stronghold.
and Russian Influence In the commer
cial life of that coast has been abased.
Corean railways are In her control, her
soldiers and police keep order in the
Hermit Kingdom, and the Corean Em
peror Is a puppet In her hands. The
audacious advances of Russia In Man
churia, and in China proper, were not
only the apparent, but one of the most
vital, causes of tjie war. Here, too, her
triumph cannot be denied. Chinese
high officials are her subservient tools.
and hordes- of Chinese bandits, offi
cered by Japanese, are doing much of
the outpost duty in her campaign. Chi
nese neutrality, so far as Ruslsa is
concerned, will endure until Japan
chooses to disregard It formally, as she
has already practically done. Danger
to her commerce, as well as to her com
munications with the mainland. Is over.
as far as Vladivostok Is concerned. The
other Russian possessions on the Pa
cific lie at her mercy. Even If the for
mal conclusion of the war be delayed.
all of the current cost of warfare by
sea. and much by land, will now cease.
The hands of Japan are now prac
tically free from danger of war with a
Western power. Great Britain Is her
ally, and, with America, her friend.
Neither of the nuvles of France or Ger
many Is a substantial menace to her
free action. She has gained nearly all
the points In the game. What will
she do?
It is seemingly a simple question.
But In reality It Is not so simple as It
looks. While the MIkado Is, in some
ways, a type of absolute monarchy. It
must not be forgotten that the consti
tution accorded to the Japanese, and
under which their progress has been so
marvelous, is a real and living force.
Currents of national opinion make
themselves felt and recognized, and go
a long way to fixing the policy of the
country as a whole.
And there are two opposing currents
in active play. The one is that which
has repeatedly been published before
and during the war, and has never been
denied by the Emperor or. the govern
ment Given the attainment of the ob
Jects for which she took up arms,
Japan desired nothing better than to
enter on an era of commercial develop
ment at peace with all the world.
Trade and commerce were to go In and
out on the coasts of the countries of
the Orient through an" open door. Op
pressive restrictions there should be
none for any nation. Friendly rivalry
on even terms, this should be the
watchword of Japan.
But. on the other hand, the President
of the Japanese House of Peers re
cently made public use of these expres
sions: "The sacred duty Is incumbent
upon us. as the leading state of Asiatic
progress, to stretch a helping hand to
China. India, Corea. to all the Asiatics
who have confidence in us, and who
are capable of civilization. As their
more powerful friend, we desire them
all to be free from the yoke which Eu
rope has placed upon them, and that
they may thereby prove to the world
that the Orient Is capable of .measuring
swords with the Occident, on any field
of battle." The watchword of that
party Is "Asia for the Asiatics," and Its
significance is wide.
Between the two parties, thus seeking
to mould public opinion, and to direct
it to political action, the issue, then. Is
plainly drawn.
While this second cry is intended to
arouse the sentiment of the less deeply
thinking masses, yet the better pros
pect seems to be that nothing will be
suffered to derogate from the force of
the announcement to the world that
Japan has fought for those principles,
and those only, which she has already
made, or is now making, to prevail.
Peace with the civilized world, and an
honored place at the council table of
the nations, this, and thJ3 only, will
satisfy her legitimate ambition.
THE EXPOSITION AN EDUCATOR.
In the prominence given to the
amusement features of the Exposition
there is danger that Its real value as
an educator, especially to the young,
may be overlooked. It is. all very well,
of course, to throng the booths and
flimsy structures of the Trail. It is
quite right to take lunch at Little
Hungary, and sit down at the little
tables of the German Garden with
friends. The Streets of Cairo must be
seen, and the Carnival of Venice must
not be passed by:v After all. these,
and their like, are but the fringes and
ornaments of the Fair.
The chance surely must not be lost
to learn the practical lessons heaped
together from every quarter of the
globe. Every teacher In Portland should
be offered, and should most willingly
accept the opportunity of the object;
lessons for their pupils, young and old.
Hardly a topic in the lesson book but
here finds Illustration. Geography,
.botany, mineralogy, ethnology, me-
esaxues, sojupgy, social science, art,
manufacture, all are in their most at
tractive shapes. All are condensed, ac
cumulated. In these buildings and
grounds. 'Never again "will there be an
equal chance to make live the dry
bones of schoolroom "Instruction.
Never again will there be an equal
show to open eyes from the young and
limited achievements of the Pacific
Coast to the wider views of what the
great world outside is doing and has
done. Let no one think that in one, or
even in six visits, he has "seen the
Fair." When he has exhausted all
there Is to be seen, and things are ad
justed in their places, and have come
Into comparison, and the reasons for all
difference are made plain and recorded
In thenotebook and Journal of the
mind. then, and not till then, has the
Fair been seen.
To the visitors of older-years, many
of whom have seen Chicago, and Buf
falo, and Omaha, and St Louis, it is
hardly needful to give -the same advice
for In each Exposition Is noticeable
the advance towards fulfillment of the
promise of the earlier shows. This
progress, this unending movement, has
for every thoughtful man an entranc
ing interest. In human thought and
human effort there is no stopping
place, and each successive Exposition
emphasizes that lesson. But we close
with the suggestion again that the chil
dren, above the rest of "us. must have
their chance to learn from this open
book.
The St Louis. Republic says the Lewis
and Clark Exposition is "another of
those 'timekeepers of progress.'" The
Globe-Democrat says It will be a 'mag
nificent advertisement" The Post-Dispatch
says the "Portland Fair appeals
with force only less persuasive than the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition to the
patriotic sentiment of the country."
The Buffalo News sends congratula
tions. The Buffalo Times says the "show
is worth going a long way to see." These
words of praise and commendation will
strike the people of Portland as pe
culiarly gratifying, coming from cities
which have but recently emerged from
exposition undertakings. The Buffalo
Fair is associated In the public mind
with a great National tragedy; but it
was, nevertheless, a splendid affair,
and deserved better luck. The St. Louis
Fair was the greatest In history, and
ought to have had larger attendance.
We shall hope for all the good fortune
that St. Louis and Buffalo merited.
Russia Is ready to yell "enough." but
evidently wants to arrange matters
so that nobody but President Roosevelt
will hear It The President has no use
for a quitter, but he easily recognizes
with an expert's eye which of two com
batants has been licked. Therefore he
begs to assure Russia that he is ready
to pull Japan off whenever Russia gives
him the word. It is somewhat flatter
ing to our National pride to feel that.
notwithstanding the undoubted leaning
of the United States towards the cause
of Japan, the Russians have entire con
fidence in our sense of and desire for
fair play to see that mediation by an
outside nation is properly under
taken and Impartially executed. No
doubt Japan will exact very hard terms
of Russia; but no doubt also- President
Roosevelt will do what he can to see
that they are not such terms as cannot
be met Mediation may not be so easy
and peaceful a task as might be hoped
for.
It is admitted that there can be no
criticism of the character of Mayor
Williams. It is above reproach. His
life of fifty years in Oregon is unassail
able. But they say his appointees are
not perfect men. Never yet were men
placed in positions where the details of
business had to pass through their
hands, who could not be criticised by
fault-finders. To find fault Is the glori
ous prerogative of the American clti
zen. Usually he Is wrong, or mistakes.
Still. It Is his high prerogative. Dr.
Lane was Superintendent of the Asy
lum for the Insane. His administration
was deemed a failure. Even Pennoyer,
his beat friend, wouldn't keep him. Yet
Dr. Lane is now out talking against
Mayor Williams. "We are all poor crit
ters."
By putting Mr. Frlck down and out.
the Equitable has not at all convinced
the public that what he said is not
true. "Excessive salaries, excessive
commissions, excessive expenses and
superfluous offices should not be toler
ated," says the Frlck report. Exactly
The public has long known that there
was a big rake-off in the life Insur
ance business for somebody. But it
-could not be exactly located. Perhaps
It should make no difference to the policy-holder,
if he getsr all he expects, or
has been promised, which he sometimes
does, but he likes to feel, all the same,
that he Is getting a square deal, and a
little more, if possible.
A pathetic appeal Is that which goes
from St. Petersburg to Paris, asking
the French government to secure,
through Its Minister at Toklo, as com
plete a list as possible of the Russian-
dead of the late naval battle. The Ad
miralty Is driven to this course by the
Insistent clamor ' of the relatives
of the officers and men of the
vanquished fleet for news of them, liv
ing or dead. The list however dill
gently complied, will, of necessity,
leave the fate of many an officer and
aallor unchronicled except by the word
"unknown."
Democrats, of course, will vote
against Mayor Williams. Some Repub
licans, doubtless, too mostly of the
sort "who think that, as neglected mu
niclpal statesmen, they have ground of
complaint. Such we shall always have
with us our Nottinghams and How-
ells; who feel, moreover, that their only
possible way of obtaining notice is By
violent attack on others. This accounts
for the frequency with which such ex
pedient is used.
The Japanese attribute their great
victories "wholly to the surpassing vir
tues of the Mikado." Wonderful vir
tues. Indeed! The Mikado must be
nearly as virtuous as our own holier-
than-thou pulpit politicians, and our
nonpareil municipal-association fellers,
think themselves.
After all. the Jemtchug was not sunk
"in a minute," as the Japanese report
ed. She has shown up at Manila. The
story of the battle of Corean Straits
has lost nothing of its romance from
the fact that so far we have had only
the Japanese version of it.
One hundred master butchers in even
lhg suits and opera hats appeared In
the Berlin parade to receive the Crown
Prince's afljaacei bride. Why not
0REG0N0Z0NL -
Lives of landlords all remind us
(When they charge us double time)
It Is difficult to find us
Punishment to fit their crime.
A Missouri man has confessed that he
purposely lost one of his legs by thrust
ing it under a railroad train !n order that
he. might collect damages. That he gat
damages goes without saying.
Some of the papers hare commented
sarcastically upon the fact that Admiral
R y was found "cowering in the
hold of the vessel, covered with wounds,"
when captured by the Japanese. Do these
papers expect a man covered with wounds,
with his skull fractured, to remain In the
fighting-top waving an ikon and 'yelling
"Hurrah for our side"? Charles Reade
once wrote a book called "Put Yourself
In His Place."
It took three Governors, a United States
Senator; a Judge and two plain citizens
to drive one spike Into a railroad tie at
Celllo yesterday. Governors were not
made for manual labor. Mickey O'Houll
gan. now. could have driven that spike
home all by himself, asking nothing but
elbow room and a chance to spit on his
hands.
It is stated that the man suspected of
having thrown a bomb with the intention
bf extirpating King Alfonso- is a Paris
newspaper writer. Possibly he has be
come inoculated with saffronltls.
Told the Truth.
"What are you fellows driving at up
there?" inquired a man in the Agricul-.
tural building at the Exposition, yester
day, addressing some carpenters who were
working on an unfinished booth.
"Nails," replied" one of the carpenters.
A new biography of Fitzgerald, who
Englished Omar Khayyam, has appeared.
It is to be hoped that this pleasant lit
erary event will not incite any- more paro
dists to Rubalyatlc frenzies.
There is a man named Shakespeare
living in Victoria, B. C, but he Is not
related.
On a Portland Car.
Conductor Fare, please?
Exposition Visitor How much is it?
The New World ought to feel at least
three hands higher if the Old World per
mits President Roosevelt to become the
mediator in the Jap-Russ affair.
When they speak of a-ship limping into
port, does that imply that it walks on
the water?
One of the chief differences between
President Francis, of the Louisiana Pur
chase Exposition, and President Goode,
of the Lewis and Clark Exposition, was
that Mr. Francis got into the limelight
and had his picture taken in the center of
S6S groups during the St Louis Fair pe
rlod. President Goode is handsomer than
Franclr. but he is too busy to pose.
Essayettes on Clothes.
Man Is the only animal that wears
clothes, and he would have more- money
In his pockets if he didn't
The clothes make the man; also, they
break him, .along about Easter.
In the matter of shirtwaists a woman Is
a regular lawn-mower.
Some of the stockings a woman buys are
dreams, but the bills her husband gets are
nightmares.
Once I knew a woman who declared that
she had nothing to, wear, but I observed
that when she went out on the street she
was not arrested.
If a man didn't wear any clothes he
would have more money to spend for
pocketknlves.
The Washington Post nominates Vic
Murdock. the red-headed Congresman
from Wichita, Kan., for President of
the United States. Mr. Murdock's
brain Is fully as bright as his hair.
An Oakland newspaper, commenting
upon the fact that a day has been named
for Joaquin Miller at the Lewis and Clark
Exposition, sighs because Miller has not
given us "one grand poem like "Tho Ra
ven,' by Edgar Allan Poe," and remarks
that the Sierran bard has sold much
rhymed trash for cash. Joaquin Miller's
poem entitled "Columbus" is worth more
to America and to the world than all the
midnight maunderlnga of the pessimistic
Poe. Miller is an optimist Somebody
has said that a pessimist is an optimist
out of a Job. Poor Poe was usually in
that condition. All the music in his soul
seemed- to be attuned to dirge-measure.
No perpetual pessimist ever became a
great poet that Is, a permanent poet
Walt Whitman and Emerson. America's
greatest poets, were America's greatest
optimists, if Poe had possessed for read
ing and reflection such a poem as Joaquin
Miller's "The Fortunate Isles," it is prob
able that . he would have tuurned out
poetry of more nearly universal appeal.
Rebuke.
Though gorgeous was the morning with
delight ,
Of Summer shine, and sweet with scent
ed bloom,
My soul was curtained with oblivious
gloom.
And all my senses savored of the night
Though peerless youth was mine, and
rugged might
Of muscle to go forth and conquer doom,
My spirit sank supine, as one to whom
The world were but a burden and a blight
I was the slave of sneering discontent
As with the city's throng I went and
came;
But ere the largess of the day was spent
I hung my head in most confusing
shame.
For sightless there amid the market
place I saw a smile upon a blind man's face!
ROBERTUS LOVE.
BRYAN AS A PREACHER.
He Talks Well, but Never Says
Anything. .
Christian Advocate Methodist
William Jennings Bryan filled the pul
pit of the Methodist Church at Normal,
Neb., on Sunday last The report say3
that his text was, "Blessed are the pure
in heart, for they shall see God." Mr.
Bryan might have made an extraordinary
preacher. It was not uncommon in the
early days of Methodism for lawyers to
become local preachers. Some of the
most interesting and impressive preach
ers in England have been lawyers in
active practice. Such has been the case
within a few years in different parts of
this country. Mr. Bryan Is a Presby
terian. How he came to preach in this
Methodist Church Is not .reported, but
he will never lack hearing "as long as he
has his voice, his perfect mastery of him
self. His expressive eyes; and his extraor
dinary vocabulary- Entirely apart from
political. bias, one thing can be said of
him. that nothing in speech vulgar or
morally depraving has ever been even
so much as charged against hiaa.
DELCASSE THEPEACE-MAKER.
Staff Correspondence New Tork World.
The man .whose hands have, long molded
for good or 111 the destinies of France i3
strangely unknown to his- countrymen.
His acts as Minister of Foreign Affairs
for France have by the circumstances ot
international politics In recent years made
M. Delcasse one of the dominating pef
sonages of modern times; French oplnloa
recognizes the supreme Importance thv
attaches to his every mood, and whac-
soever step he takes or refuses to tak6 Is
the subject of an admiration more enthu
slastically phrased, or of a criticism mor
virulent than waits on any other publlcf
man of the day.
This queer-looking little man. badly
dressed, awkward, moody, cold, hay
schemed for France, yielding "here, win
ning there, making and breaking treaties,
watching every sign of the political
weather, trimming his sails - to every
change of wind and sea, disposing - ac
cording to his judgment of the fortunes
of France in every new contingency,
checked only by the knowledge that after
the thing was done there would be in
press and in chamber a sever account- v
lug. .
He lives in a perpetual incognito, and it
is said that he has never been known to
enter into any relations other than those
of pure business with any single one of
his party associates or Ministerial col
leagues; foreign affairs duly and meth
odically disposed of, he retires Into his
shell and is inaccessible to any one but
the very few personal friends, mostly the
simplest and the least politically impor
tant, whom he has gathered round him.
He is a fairly well-to-do man. He owns
house property in Paris, in the Cllchy
quarter, where before politics claimed
hint he was a simple bourgeois, working
all day at .his office, and in tae evening
under the domestic lamp making up his
accounts with Jime. Delcasse and plan
ning the details of future buying and sell
ing. The furniture he affects is of the
simple, solid order, having no pretension
to art or to fashion. Elegance is nothing
to him; all he cares for is utility, and. as
far as possible, inconsplcuousness. But
even in his desk there Is evident the lik
ing for the spaciousness that makes for
order: in his private house the desk la
monumental.. Delcasse. like Ulsmarck.
evidently believes that the map Is the
principal document for the conduct of for
eign affairs: he Is often seen for hours at
a time poring over the great folio volumes,
of charts of all countries, which stand
within easy reach of his hand.
Delcasse almost never is seen at any
place of amusement or of intellectual re
freshment, theater, concert or art expo
sition. He is conspicuous among Minis
ters for his indisposition to entertain, and
Mme. Delcasse appears little in society
except on official occasions. M. Delcasse's
home life is to all appearances a model
of happiness. Only one cloud came over
it This was when his stepdaughter, then
still quite a child, ran away from home
with some calculating scoundrel. He Is
older for the grief older and colder. At
the same time it should be remarked
that this -Delcasscan chilliness, almost
proverbial in France. Is largely mythical.
Almost every one who comes into direct
touch with him confesses to an agreeable
surprise. The man looks cold has the
reputation of a sort of clammy, lishlness
ot aspect and ot manner. But he is mas
ter in the art of putting strangers at
their ease, and there pierces through his
undoubted and singular diffidence a .not
less . striking bonhomme as soon as he
himself has conquered the first awkward
ness which unfailingly seizes him at the
coming of an unfamiliar personality.
"I went expecting to be horribly afraid
of Delcasse," a politician said, "but I
found to my astonishment that Delcasse
was much more afraid of me,"
, . .
Hetls- at first view unsympathetic- He
is a most unimposlng looking person,
small, with a bad complexion, with most
ungainly locks and a general air of hay
ing passed a sleepless night and of having
risen headachey and in ill temper, dressed
in an ill-fitting frock-coat which might
have been acquired second-hand some,
years ago from a much bigger man, with
the cheap cravat of a flashy clerk of
sporting ambitions, shaved without ex
actitude (to put it mildly), looking sin
gularly out of drawing in the big rooms
at which one generally sees him. wheth
er In his own house or at the Foreign
Office; altogether an unrcmantic and un
lovely spectacle. It Is curious at the
same time that he is quite a stickler, for
etiquette and an arbiter of elegance as
regards others. For instance, he makes
it an unvarying rule that any caller at
the Foreign Office be duly clad In the
frock coat of the protocol, and carry the
regulation shiny silk hat and appropriate
gloves. Apparently he questions his usher
on this point whenever he anticipates the
horrible possibility of any announced vis
itor failing in the observance; more than
once, it is said, people calling, ignorantly,
in lounge-suits, have heard from the
usher that the Jilnlster "does not re
ceive." though their call had been made
by appointment.
Delcasse. has the very powerful moral
support ot President Loubet, and,, rightly
or wrongly, the political confidence of tha
majority of the people. France desires
peace, and Delcasse, at whatsoever cost,
has known how to prevent war. more
than once menaced since he came to
power. Delcasse will probably stay, no
matter who goes, for the people trust
.themselves wholly In his hands, or, rath
er, they trust the Minister without know
ing the man. That perhaps is one of the
secrets of the public confidence In him.
He is one of those men who, showing no
human side' vividly to the people, come
to be accepted as a sort of machine, a
natural and unquestioned accessory of
the national workshop.
The Guest-Room in My Heart.
Margaret Root Garvin in Lippincott'a Mask
zlne.
The little guest-room in my heart
I fitted tor thy tenancy. .
And' though thy presence stays apart
It is not wholly bare of thee:
For all the dreams there take thy snaps.
And from each humble thins it-holds
Soma fragrant thoughts ot thee escape,
tike lavender from linen-folds.
No picture hangs upon the walls -That
any other eye could trace.
But evef where the sunlight falls
I see the glory of thy face.
No oher tenant may it take--Nay,
rather loneliness for choice!
I wquid not have another wake
The echo's dreaming of thy voice.
.To a Child.
Scrlbner's Magazine.
The leaves talked In the twilight., dear
Hearken the tale they told:
How." in some far-off place and year,
-Before the world grew old.
I was dreaming forest-tree
You were a wild, sweet bird - ,
That sheltered at the heart ot me
Because the north wind stlrredl
How. when the chiding gale .was still.
When peace- fell soft on fear.
Tou stayed one golden hour to fill
My dream with singing, dear.
Tonight, the self-tame songs are sung
Tho first green forest heard;
My heart and the gray world grow young
To shelter you, my bird.
i
New Definition or "Friend."
A new-definition of "friend'- was given
by a Manchester schoolboy the -other day
la an essay- "A friend is a person who
'knows all about you, and likes you just
the same." -