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EDITORIAL THE portland oregon; !.' THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 3 ' ? -v I A I I I J IX I A I J.W U JX'JLN .Lv 1 XI VJI JL- THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL AM INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER "JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.,. C S. JACKSON, ... . . . . Proprietors , Publisher Published every evening (except Sunday) ; at The Journal Building. Fifth and v ' Vamhlll Sts., Portland, Or. OFFICIAL CITV PAPER GOOD EVENING. ' The small hoy had a had tamper. He knew It. and was" sincerely sorry that he couldn't control It better. Hp talked to his father about It, and the father who was fond of object teaching, ksald': "Til see what I can do to help you. Here are some nails arid a ham mer. Now every time you lose your temper drive one of these nails In that post Just outside the door." After a few weeks the boy came to his father with a heavy face, and confessed, "Father, the nails are all gone." But the father only answered, "Well, now my lad. every time that you get the better of your temper pull a nail out of the post," And so the boy did. And one day he came to his father with a smiling face and said. "Father, the nails are all out." Then a shadow fell upon the boy's face, as he went on In a less cheerful tone, "but father, the hole Are there yet." Some of us would give a good deal If we could pull out the hples. Robert Whlttaker. WHY. NOT COME TOGETHER? F OR TWO TEARS building opera tions in Portland have been crippled by labor strikes causing losses, to ail concerned and to a degree retarding the growth of the city. There is every reason to believe that the growth of Portland will be greater In the coming year than In any year in Its history. Its building operations, without reference to the fair, should also foot up an unapproached total. It is im possible to supply the demand for houses. particularly those of medium else, and there Is every reason to believe that demands will continue to Increase. This must Inevitably bring about much activity in building opera tions for a demand so Insistent as this is must be met. Now all these past strikes are over and jone and the question of whether they were I wise" or unwise of little consequence ex cept In so far as they may teach a" lesson that will be valuable to us in the. future. No .one will dispute that it would be to the advantage of everybody if the element tit' uncertainty was removed from, building operations If it was known at the beginning of tneiryear that "there1; would no strikes - and that an enterprise once., undertaken '-ould be carried through without a suspen ' sion of labor. This question has not only confronted Portland, but every city in the union and that it hat not everywhere met a satisfactory solution is evidenced by' the . fact of the prolonged and disastrous tie-up In New York City this summer. But that , case serves only to emphasize the need which exists to Introduce an element of cer- " talnty In these operations for the good of the men, "the contractors, the investor .and, the public, the latter largely interested in i every such outcome but seldom receiving any consideration. The nearest approach to a solution of the question' comes from those cities in which n agreement, to hold for the coming sea eon. Is entered Into at the beginning of the - year tetween the builders and the various - trades upon which they depend. Under the terms of this agreement the various unions : fix ' the wages for the year at a specified rate; that then becomes the basis of a con tract which win last for the year, each side pledged to maintain it. In fixing this wage schedule reason and equity must govern and the question must be approached In a spirit of fairness and good will on both sides. Then w-hateveFis agreed to must be carried out to the letter during the term of the con- . tract The advantages, .of such a contract should be obvious. In the first place It insures : steady employment at good wages, which ' means that the men may make calculations In advance to meet payments on homes or obligations that they may Incur for any Other purpose. It means more work, for the Investor realizing that there Is no danger of a tie-up enters confidently on his lnvest : pent and every new building projected en courages some one else to undertake a sim- liar enterprise. It gives the architects a : Chance to plan in advance and to push for ward their end of the work In perfect, con ' fldence that the Idea which they put on paper' will in due and uninterrupted course " take shape In brick, stone or wood as the : case may be. It plades a great leverage In the hand of the contractor for he can figure With certainty on what his labor Is going to COSt him and when his contract can be completed. He can do his work cheaper sunder those circumstances, not at the ex pense of the building trades, but because vf the certainty with which he can figure ' as to time when the contract is likely to be finished and its probable cost. It seems to The Journal particularly de flrable for everybody. In Portland that some Such plan should be carried out during thfr Comlrig season. It is at least worthy of con sideration and we'commend it to the build ers and the building trades in the belief that If it is adopted it "will add largely to . the .prosperity of Portland and every one who lives m it. . - A NEW KNOW-NOTHINGISM. i NEW SPECIES of Know Noihlnglsm U it rapidly growing up In the East that haa li it some things which" wJJ appeal to the common sense and intelligence 'of the people of the whole country. It Is based upon the indiscriminate naturaliza tion of thousands upon thousands of. for i elgners who' cannot P& 7r write our lam rvftge -or their iwfc s They have-ne- emtcep-- Uon whatever of 'the genius of our lnstitu- iloni ne patriotic Impulses -jutf are utterly J without aspiration except to make aneaaier living than waa possible in the countries from which they came. This is a new and decidedly interesting development of the Know Nothing spirit. Up to wljjhln the' last few years "foreigners" have been a 'peculiarly vital element in our population. They have striven tremen dously in the development of the country and have added a fibre to our Americanism without which something essential to our well-being would be lacking. This class of "foreigners" the whole country still wel comes, but it is to the inpourlng hordes which represent the very lowest type of European civilisation and oftentimes tha dregs to which Increasing objection is being made, with the probability that sooner or later some effect will be had on congress a ad better restrictive laws be the result. Most serious, and it appears to The Jour nal, most reasonable objection is made to the indiscriminate extension of the franchise- to such people It is being pointed out that their rights can be protected without con ferring upon them citizenship and making them usually venal participators In our elec tlons. It is well to face this phase of the question in all seriousness. There are few Americans who have the good of their country at heart Who will not hall with pleasure such a discussion and hope that Its outcome may be better restrictive laws and a limitation of the franchise priveleges which are now so recklessly extended to all classes of foreigners totally without re gard to their fitness or their capacity. NOW FOR THE EVIDENCE. F THERE ARE any charges against Special Policeman Roberts they should be publicly presented and vigorously investigated. So far the esteemed Ore. gonian ahd Its Evening Echo have been ex ceedingly reckless in hinting charges In the good old Oregonlan way, but they have failed to substantiate -them when the op portunity came officially to do so. Roberts may be a grafter. The System under which he works but which custom and law justifies Is bad as It applies to the district in which he operates. There is a looseness and Irre sponsibility about it which leads to Impo sitions none the less, exasperating' because they are made under the guise of apparent authority. If Roberts is guilty it should be possible to secure the evidence to establish guilt With guilt proven it would be criminal for the police committee to hesitate a moment in summarily dismissing Roberts. The Journal knows nothing about Roberts and iesg If it I shown that he is graft ing 11 will be among the very first to de mand that his star be taken away from him. At the same time. If, as alleged, be is a bold ana audacious noia up, me reacts should be easy of demonstration and we do not believe the police committee would under such circumstances hesitate to do Its . obvious duty and extend protection to the witnesses. Bring forward the evidence. Now let the man who apparently contem plated harm to the president be disposed of as quickly and decently as is consistent with legal usages and above all with as little spectacular publicity as possible. He is simply a poor creature, who has always been-!"6 flighty and finally developed a mania which may be homicidal. Fortunately he has .done no harm. His place Is in an asylum and he should be put there without any exhibi tion ofy hysterics on the part of officials or newspapers. Reflections of a Bachelor. - , From the Chicago Tribune. A husband wouldn't be of any use to a woman unless she could brag about how she taught him to like to go to church. Those who take the most pride In doing a thing by sheer Instinct pay the penalty for It in cold Judgment A woman can get to love most any man If he will only be careful to keep telling her he hopes some day to be worthy to lay down his life for her;. You can't always tell by a woman's cold exterior that she hasn't got the sparkle like Iced champagne. Girls know a heap more before they are married than they are willing to let on they know after. Reflections of a Bachelor, From the New York Press. Some men are not fit even for them selves to associate with. It would be a terrible temptation to take out . Insurance on one's mother-in-law. It takes a widow to act as IL-She were puzzled to death over what being married is like. You can always , tell by how a woman's Hps are how much a man would like to see If any' of It will come, off. Smudge Fiend. .From the Chicago Record-Herald. When It conies to the "hog" question the fellow' who clings to the end seat Is lnslg wiflcant In comparison with the one who goes on day after day making the air foul with smoke. A Fitting Climax. ' From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Newport society has had a dog dinner, a monkey dinner and a lion dinner. Now let it give a 'coon, dinner, and Col. Watterson will do the rest Farmers' Trust. From the Chicago Post. At last the farmers have caught the pool ing fever. They have met In this city to de clare for $1 wheat and 40-cent potatoes, no matter what the crops or the demand. He Means Business. From the Kansas City Journal. Mr. Cleveland is to talk to the Chicago business men. There are various 'indica tions that Grover means business these days. A Detached Thought Marcus Aurelius. Remember that to chttpge thy mind and to follow him that gets thee right is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before. " - '"'A Hint to Tom. From the Chicago eafiL. We"' can', see Tom Johnson's finish If he goes scooting around the-country in his au1 toffiobiJa afiajdnjg grinerV 'Jwnm,JJuij . J BEIRUT'S IMPORTANCE. City Is the Center of Extensive Missionary , , ' Work. From the New Tork World. Beirut, In Syria, is the seaport of Damas cus, and is commercially; a city of Import ance. A French company has recently built a railroad over the mountains to Damascus, ahd Beirut may be the terminus of a rail road to India, The Lebanon range ofcmountalns towers above the town to the height of 8,000 feet. Back of it are fceautiful olive and palm groves. t There Is ho city In the Turkish empire, with . thte possible exception tf Constanti nople, in which America has so great Inter ests as In Beirut. In it is located the Syrian Protestant col lege, with 13 buildings, on a campus of nearly 30 acres. It has more than 600 stu dents In Its various departments, and has a large corps of Tale, Harvard, Princeton and Amherst men on its faculty. It is the headquarters of the Syrian mis sion of the Presbyterian church of America, which maintains four sub-stations at Sldon, Tripoli and at Zahleh and Abelh, in the Lebanon district The mission supportsJn Beirut the Amer ican press, which issffo in the Arabic lan guage nearly J.OOO.OOoHolumes a year. These are circulated In all parts of the world where the Arabic language Is the official and re ligious one. The educational work accomplished by the college and the Mission has been steadily Increasing inhajast few years. The former began Its work in 1866 with a mere handful of students. As said above, it has now over 600 students, ahd has lately received from the Turkish government concessions calcu lated to make Jt still more of a power In the country. Its graduates are employed In many official capacities, particularly in the Egyptian government. The college now has an acaflemlc depart ment a medical school, a school of com merce and tP preparatory department. Its campus is on the promontory extending west from the city out into the Mediterranean. Its buildings are the most 'conspicuous In the t6wn, the first that one sees from approach ing steamers. Those buildings, representing an outlay of many thousands of dollars. Include a main' building, used as a dormitory; the medical hall, a chemical laboratory, the George E. Post Science Hall, the preparatory depart ment, the Marquand house for the president, the Daniel Bliss hall, the observatory and others. Besides the press and a building, formerly used for a theological seminary, but now used by the college, the Mission property in cludes a girls' seminary, a church and a building used for a Sunday School room and for church festivals. The entire American investment In Beirut amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and many of the professors and missionaries have built their own city homes and summer residences In the mountains at their own expense. - Recent letters from Beirut indicated great unrest. The city contains some 120,000 people, and only about 40,000 of them are Mohammedans. Yet the Mohammedan Is the dominant race and holds the upper hand. ' " Of late It has been dangerous for Euro peans to go out at night alone, and even in the day time there have been many cases assault, On the promontory a great waste of sand stretches up from the south shore. Between it and the north shore there is a network of cactus lanes. Several Americans have been attacked within the last few months in these lanes. A Word With Col. Watterson. From the Washington Post It la always a privilege to catch step with Col. Watterson and to follow wherever he may lead, this matter of our army and navy maneuvers on the far New England coast, however, we shall have to deny our selves altogether. Col. Watterson is of the opinion that the said maneuvers amount to little, If anything, more fljah child's play; in fact, we think. we caught a murmur that sounded very much like' "fuss and feathers." And as the colonel Is a man who frees his mind on all occasions, we find ourself con fronted by views to which we cannot wholly , and unqualifiedly subscribe. We have long admired these manifesta tions of military ardor these illustrations of deep cunning and homicidal strategy. They do not teach the country anything, and what tljey teach our great warriors the lat ter conceal fromthe vulgar curiosity o.f the rabble. But It Is a real treat to read about them in the newspapers every morning. How the "enemy" was baffle?! here and the in domitable "defenders" exhibited prodigies of valor there; how the Invading battleships were destroyed one by one, each by a single shell, and how the dastard foe must finally, be driven from ,our shores In a hopelessry fractured and demoralized condition all this makes mighty feverish reading these dull summer mornings. So, at least, we have al ways found It. Ever since that glorious day three years ago when Col. Henry May led the first regiment of the District national guard to victory, after resorting to the masterly expedient of locating the enemy from the dizzy summit of an adjacent smokehouse ever since that glorious day we have re garded the summer maneuvers of our fleets and armies as an Infallible preparation for America's destined conquest of the wprld. Col. Watterson is behind the tirrfes, or else he lives too far away from the object-lessons to make a Just appraisement of their value. Let him come to Washington some day next fall after hog-killlng, say and side by side with some1 one who knows the ' meaning of things, gaze upon the martial for mof Gen. Thingambob or Admiral Binnacle as that foaming warrior passes by. Let him mark the haughty glance, the swelling brisket, the fearless legs, and then ask whether this means pride and empty arrogance. He will learn that It means possession of the secret of the maneuvers and a sense of the almost intolerable responsibility of that sapience; Shift your point of view, colonel. Come here and get Into the light Just once - Must Get a Move On. From the Minneapolis Journal. If it takes all the airships as long as It takes Prof. L&ngley to get a start, his wife will have time for one more glance lntohe mirror, ::. ., Another Chance for Miss Stone, From the Chicago Chronlclev, ,s , As the Macedonian revolutionary commit tee is appealing 'fox funds. It Is now up to. Miss Bulgaria. Stone to go ver there' ahd t caj captured again.:.- ' -, HE WAS A BORE. And the Girl In. Pink Steed Him Just ; i j.vi-- ; Long as She Could. " ; " V I From the Chicago News. The girl in pink wrinkled her brows try iiig to find the right phrase to explain, her meaning: "He was the sort of creature," she began at lstat, 'who itrles to hold your hand toe. second time he comes to call- perfectly Impossible, you know, but harm less." Her auditors nodded comprehensively. "I knew one of that type once," said the girl in blue. I always felt so sorry for ' him wanted to pat his hair In-a motherly way and tell him to run and play. It Is merely a case of brain development stopped, at abirt JIV, M, W1IUA. 'I couldn't be properly indignant at ail,? went on the girl In pink. "J might Just as well have tried the Clara Vera de -Vere air on a mouse. He looked like a mouse any how, with his pale eyes and hair and he was perfectly unconscious how Irritating his at titude was." i "What did ybu bother lth- him forr asked the practical girl. v The girl In pink looked gently kind. "My dear child," she breathed, "I was stranded at that desolate summer hotel and he was the only man there!" There was a rebuked silence till she went on. ' "With all his Inanity, he was an awful egotist He used to tell me by the hour about his aspirations and how he waa wan dering through life a misunderstood man. I endured It because there were 10 other girls there who didn't even have a feeble-minded' egotist to talk to. Besides I could plan my winter wardrobe while he talked. He said he was sure he and I were affinities and asked if I didn't feel a 'subtle something in the air that led me to think the same. I said all I felt In the air was about a million mosqultos and I wished he'd take me In doors. "Even that didn't squelch him. "He murmured, 'Ah.-little one, you cannot always evade me,' and attempted to pat my hand as though I were about six. I had to eat two pounds of chocolates before - I felt myself again after that" . '1 should think so," said the girl in blue. "When a man decides he is an ethereal. philosophical, mountain-heights genius he is proof against slurs ' ' and sarcasm. You might Just as well try to shoot a rhinoceros with a candy gun." The girl In pink plaintively -resumed her narrative. "He used to walk m down to the beach and rhapsodize on the thunderous waves, but when one of them smashed In and drenched me he simply rushed for higher ground and wrung his hands, shrieking for me to come on. Afterward he explained that his agitation was due to his awful fear that I would be swept away from him for ever. I couldn't get the Idea out of his head that In me he had found his fate- and that In time I would recognise our affinity. He had a sympathizing way of assuming that the scales would drop from my eyes in time that was perfectly maddening. There is nothing so terrible as a man you can't snub." "That's a tremendous truth," murmured a sympathetic listener. The other nodded as sent. - "I told blm I was too frivolous and simple ever to climb to the mental heights that he had reached and he ' "Only patted your hand," suggested the girl in blue. "Yes," admitted Ifie-tinhappy one. "That didn't work, so I tried making fun of him to his face, but he only grew patient and re peated, the performance. I almost had hys terics. I knew I should do something des perate. Finally I told him flatly that ho was a bore and I hated him and I wished he'd go away and bother some one else. Would you believe It? He sighed pityingly and said these soul flutterlngs of mine were precious to him, showing as they did the strength of my character. And he started to pat my hand again. I lost my temper then completely and " "What did you do?" they asked, breath Isssly "I slapped him! Yes, 1 did! And I thjnk he is sitting there yet with the light of in telligence breaking over him." ABOARD THE ERIN. Mysterious Disappearance of Trinkets At tributed to Guests. From the New York Sun. There were not quite so many uninvited guests on the Erin yesterday as there were at the other races. The publication of the facts regarding theni waked, the dormant sense of propriety In at leaat 27 of them, and they called Up Sir Thomas' offices here and asked if they were not expected. .They were told that if they had been invited they were expected, and that if they had not they were not A few came in plteof this somewhat explicit explanation. " ' Whn the folks who have been sponging on Sir Thomas began escorting His real friends and guests down the bay on the William Fletcher and began scrambling to get in front of his real frjenda, and. guests when lunch and tea were eerVedV there were a lot of little trifles of some interest as bric-a-brac about the cabins. There were silver ash trays bearing the name of the Erin in enamel. There were cut-glass match safes. These have vanished. They were not stowed away on board; they were taken from the ship by "guests." Two years ago the Erin was nearly stripped by souvenir thieves. At that time a well known American yachtsman congratulated Sir Thomas, after looking, over the. stripped cabins and pantries. "You ought to be thankful that they left the keel," said he. The Usual Howard. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. At the base of Pompey's statue stood J. Caesar, facing the mob. The first conspir ator to appear, dagger in hand, was P. Ser villus Cases, Inventor of the cascaret. Dodging the thrust of the would be as sassin, Caesar swung on his' Jaw, putting him down and out. "Aha, Casslus!" he exclaimed, facing his second foeman, whom he dispatched with a hook in the solar plexus, after receiving several flesh wounds.. Then came Brutus, and It - was air-off. "And you, too, Brutusi" moaned the great general. "You whose note I Indorsed .but yesterday!" So saying, he wrapped his toga about him and gave up the ghost. , Signs JuJrosperlty; From the Harney Valley Items. . The Windsor bar has added mirrors to the back bir for glasses, "etc. It is very swell. : From the" New York World. ? The "weary Tltaa--BrTtafn 1 at last at JTest- r . MAGEL88EN 'DESCRIBED. ' One of the Handsomest Men In the Consular .''":'. '; pV, t Beirut. ' V"':'' ',, From 'the New. .York World. : Henry Noble MacCracken, eldest son. of Chancellor MacCracken of New York unl verslty, returned on Tuesday on the Kaiser wiihelm der Grosse from Europe, after hav lng spent three rears at Beirut Syria, as a teacner in the Protestant college, there. . He was one of the 150 English and Amer lean residents jrf the town and his work and octal duties brought him into close contact with Consul ' Magelssen. - Their Intimate friendship extended over the three years that Mr. MacCracken spent In the Syrian town, and to the World last night ha told of the chaj-Acterlstice et the man and the conditions under which the foreigners In the place live. Young MacCracken was forced to return home through Illness. Ten weeks ago he was 'taken sick and his father went to him and brought him home. t . - ;. ;.., - "Mr. Magelssen," he laid, '"was considered the handsomest man in ' alf the numerous consular officials stationed at Beirut ' He was over six feet tall and powerfully built. "He and his brother-in-law, the consul. were both of Norwegian extraction.1 "Mr. Magelssen was unmarried. and made his home a short distance from the American consulate at the , Victoria, Hotel, which stands in the center of the city, within five minutes' walk of the port. He was ' very popylar among both Syrians and Europearia. He was a member ofcthe English club and of various social organisations, a number of which exist among the 150 Anglo-Americans 0f Beirut. "Last April Mr. Magelssen Interested him self prominently In organising-the field-day sports of the Syrian Protestant college in Beirut. He served as Judge of events on :his occasion and was instrumental, with Mr. Rayndall, the consul, in securing the at tendance at the games of the newly ap pointed governor of Lebanon, Muzafflr Pasha, who took With him the imperial band. The new governor is very friendly toward America. He married an American girl, "The Inadvertent placing of an American flag over the tent occupied by the imperial band on this field day came near causing serious trouble, as complaint was made to the Sultan than an Insult had been shown his flag. Over 5,000 people Including the entire, diplomatic corps of Beirut and the highest Turkish officials, including the gen eral in command of the Sultan's troops in Syria, were present 'The past year has been one of Increas ing danger to foreign residents In Syria. An European was killed on the Damascus road in the spring. Archdeacon Frere of the English church was twice shot at when pass Jng In hlB carriage through the streets of Beirut In April last. As late as June Dr. George Ford of Sidon, one of the most prominent American missionaries in Syria, was attacked, probably by the Shlek of a village in the Lebanon district whom he had removed from office for injustice to native Christians, "These cases Indicate Increasing contempt for the power of foreign governments to pro- tect their citizens. Every failure to dls- may haemperty valued at J250 or an in cover and punish the perpetrator of such an of 170 a"year and still receive the full outrage confirms this feeling In the public mind and renders more and more unsafe the lives of all foreigners. Mr. Magelssen waa much Interested In the prevention of cruelty to animals, and by his repeated intervention in their behalf may well have incurred the animosity or. some of the cruel horse drivers whom he had arrested for maltreating horses. He was a man of great personal bravery, and was not to be deterred by personal consideration from, carrying out his philanthropic im pulses. , . ' "He. was very active and efficient in work ing up a market for American goods. He had secured the Introduction of a consid erable number of 'shoe-making machines the past year; threshing machines, phonographs, sewing machines and other American manu factures." From the New York Tribune. In the opinion .of Walter S. Blgelow of 24 State street, an exporter who' ha business interests in Turkey, where he spent six months last winter,' the assassination of Mr. Magelssen was probably an affair provoked by personal revenge rather than inspired by any political motive. "Last April I spent three weeks in Beirut," said Mr. Blgelow last evening, "and, meet- r'Mr. Magelssen the first day, I saw a great deal of him, and came to know him very Intimately. The news of his murder Is a great shook to mer and yet in a way I may say that Lyam not altogether surprised, knowing Mr. Magelssen so well as I did, and knowing also 'the almost total absence of nersonal nrotection existing in all Turkish cities. The vice.-consul was a splendid physical specimen of a man. He was un usually tall and of large frame. Hailing from Minnesota, he possessed all the char acteristic daring and nerve-rf the Westerner. He was absolutely fearless, and his disregard for personal danger amounted almost to recklessness. Tor ' these reasons he was known and beloved by all Europeans along the Syrian coast as far south as Alexandria, arid perhaps for the same reason he invoked the enmity of the natives. "Soon after arriving at Beirut I was told several stories of encounters, which Mr. Magelssen had had with native highway men- On one occasion he was waylaid by two desperate characters along the - shore road on a dark night and, although "un armed, he disposed of hit assailants' single- handed. The punishment he adlnlstered was said to have been as severe as it waa unex pected. Later, another native cutthroat-at tempted to hold up Mr. Magelssen one night In a lonely part of the town, but he was so badly used up as a result of the encounter that the services of a doctor were necessary. Naturally, in small place like Beirut, the reports of these affairs spread, but it was supposed that the American vice-consul had inspired such respect . among the native desperate characters that he would be Im mune froriv further molestation." The Women Who Work. - From the New York Press. Of the total working population of ,the United States, women constitute less than 15 per cent Compare this with othefoun- trles, and you . will reallxe fully how well women are' treated ln America, In Germany the percentage tf females employed to the ; total self-supporting population Is 25, while In England it U. 27. In Italy the percentage Is 40, and in Austria 47. Among the Indians It used to be 100, and about the same per centage waa found by Livingstone-.in Africa. The higher the civilization, the lower the percentage; ' . .'...-.,-,' V:5"' ' -v' ' ' ' ' ''-t - '' " - . Need a 8trenuoua Harmanizer. From, the Norwich BullejUiw--' : An effort is to, be made to harmonise Col. Bryan and the Hon. David Bennett Hill. The harmonlzers should take clubs with them. SHORT STORIES 1 General 8herldan'a Friend. From Lipplnoott's Magazine,", " " . Upon a certain occasion Gen. Sherman was the guest of honor at a banquet, after which a reception was Held. Among the Hrrtf: of. people who filed in and out to shake bands with the great war hero Gen. Sherman per ceived a face that was very familiar, , but . which he could not place. ;. . "Who are your; he asked In an apologetic aside, "as he welcomed the guest heartily. The man blushed and murmured behind a deprecatory hand . W- -'--r "Made your shirts; sir." "Ah, of course," exclaimed . the general loudly, turning to the receiving committee behind, him. "Gentlemen, allow me to pre sent Major Shurtz." ''-'. The Fault of the Bells. .'. ' From the London Globe. A 'clergyman on his way to church one Sunday morning pulled up to rebuke an angler. "Don't you hear the bells summon ing you to church?" he asked. The Usher man put an inquiring hand to his ear. En couraged, the clergyman repeated the ques tion.. But once again the fisherman asked for a repetition, and then again, and even yet again. Flushed from overmuch bawl ing, the parson- was about to proceed on his way, when the fisherman spoke: "Very sorry, guv'nor." he said, "but them bloomln bells makes such a hades of a clatter that I can't hear a word ypu says." - OLD AGE PENSION8. They Have Aroused Much Enthusiasm In New Zealand. Henry TJ. Lloyd in Good Housekeeping. The old age pension has captured the heart of the Australasian public. The hope and rescue It has brought to broken down men and women condemned without it to bit ter,, degrading, unasauaged misery, are be yond question; their gratitude is recorded In many touching ways. ' The old age pension Is the abolition of capital punfsment In Industry, and the peo ple of New Zealand are glad to pay the bill. New Zealand Is the most prosperous and the most solvent country in the world. Its ten years of reform have been ten years of finan cial surpluses for Its government. It Is the most progressive of all the Australasian democracies, and Its bonds rank the highest of all the colonies In the London money market. ' The principles and operations of the law are simple' enough. No new tax was levied to pay for the pensions, as the surplus rev enue sufficed. No new officers had to be appointed, and. the work is done by those who ere already functionaries of the state, the postmasters who .furnish the printed forms for applications, the magistrates who pass upon them, and the registrars who make the payments. The relief Is for the deserving poor, but one does not need to be Althbr a taint nr a nannAr t Brat it l)nA allowance of $90 a year, an English shilling a day. The Idea is to prevent pauperism and encourage thrift by adding to the sav ings of the poor enough to keep them out of the pauper class. For tljose who have more property or more income, tne allowance ty the state is decreased proportionately 'until It disappears. Thus, those who.have 260 pf income or $1,600 of property can have no pensions. Those- who are criminals are excluded, but not those who have been criminals. One may have committed the most .heinous of crimes and be forgiven if It happened 25 years ago. A serious misdemeanor of 12 years since will be overlooked. Minor mat ters like drunkenness of more, than Ave years ago are passed by. This tenderness toward the weak of morale was deliberate. "The democracy," the statesman said, .who pro posed this feature of the law, "can afford to forgive." The MaorlB are admitted to the full benefit of the law; 1,055 of them were drawing pensions last year. In this sense they are the "white man's burden." ' There are some frauds, of course, but not many, and the law Is amended from time to time to meet such violations of the public confidence. Upton's Views. Sir Thomas Lipton, in an article pub lished in the September Cosmopolitan, en titled "My Efforts to Wlu the . America's Cup," expressed his dissatisfaction v .with yacht racing conditions, which require the building of vessels which are merely racing machines. He hopes for the day to come when contestants .' in International' sailing matches will be real- yachts. He says, In part: ' . Cup challengers and defenders are dan gerous. One stands upon their decks as one sails, and at any minute a spar may fall, or a sail may fall, or a piece of metal may fall. Yes, racing yachts are dangerous and use less. Of what use to mankind, of what use to commerce, are these beautiful white swans? They are of no use at all. They are a men ace. Do they aid In. the science of shipbuild ing? Do they teach any lesson to the thous ands of men who earn their livelihood upon the. seas? They do not. They are mere racing machines, nothing more and nothing less. ' When these races are ended they are worth only so much as the metal within them will bring. They are xf no practical use to' anyone. If Shamrock III loses I shall have to throw her upon a scrap heap. I love her, because upon her my hopes are centered. I want the up to go back where it came from and, in order to - meet the reqylre ments of the defenders, I had to build her good-for-nothing, beautiful creature that she is. But If she wins the .cup I will cher- iart her for the glory that was hers. Yet, in that case, never wllj her. type race again for the America's .cup unless It again leaves Jts native shores for the United States. American yachtsmen would have to build a different kind of a boat from either Shamrock- HI or Reliance to bring it hack again. If the cup goes to England, Ireland and Scotland, the challengerTnust build an hon- ' est boat, a healthy boat, a real boat to meet the defender on the. other side, if I live and have any voice in the matter. '?- . T PompeiF. -From the Kansas City Times. Vesuvius Is shooting flames and lata to a height of 4,000 feet and Pompeii Is In a fair way to have another series of Last Days. Where Pattl Started. From the Baltimore' American.. i ' Mme. Pattl's first fee for singing was a pound of candy. , She has been a sweet singer ever since. ,