ESItopna! 'Pake- of ffia; Jmiraal PORTLAND, OREGON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1904 THE OR EOO IN DAILY AN C ft, JACKSON PabHshed rrsry evening (except Sunday) at The Journal Building, Fifth and OFFICIAL, PAPER OP THE CITY OF THE JOURNAL'3 PLATFORM A Trinity of Events Which Would Make of Portlani the MigbtiMt City of the Pacific Coast v., ' ' - ' , . X. " Firstr-Deepen the Columbia river bar. i SecondOpen the Columbia river to unim peded navigation at and above The DaQesv Third Dig an Isthmian canaL x lONEJVBRYAN- AND HIS ,f ; x-x critic . . HE personification and apostle appeals to the lowest motive can play upon was one W. J. ful' actor, unsuccessful lawyer, unsuccessful editor, un successful candidate." ' , j t The nameless ass on the Oregonlan who penned the foregoing doubtless has been successful In all these things in which "one W. J. Bryan" has so signally failed. Hav ing, been successful It is entirely within the province pf a delicately attuned mind to rub it in with pharasalcal unction on those who have not been equally .fortunate .with himself. ' J i "W, J. Bryan Is not a perfect man; being human he has made mistakes, some of them grievous ones. But per sonally he is an honest man, he is a clean, self-respecting American citizen and a type of husband and father who may well stand as a model. 11 is the fashion of the .par tisan press to hound him; it is the fashion of the partisan scribblers who by no stretch of the Imagination could be credited with having accomplished anything themselves, to malign and belittle him. What he stood for la politics has been threshed over and over again. There at least was no quibbling In his course; everybody knew precisely where he stood and what was to be expected of him in the event of his election. No one had any doubt that he would carry out that contract to the letter. The decision of the American people was against him, In the last elec tion overwhelmingly so. ,But both defeat he accepted with good grace. At the present time he Is not a presi dential possibility, but the whirligig of time works wonders and the execrated sinner of today sometimes becomes the consecrated saint of tomorrow.' . ' Bryan has just returned from a' trip abroad. During his absence he was put to an extraordinary test. His en vironment was new, strange and peculiarly exacting. His every movement was watched with keen, critical and unfriendly eyes ; his every expression was weighed and balanced to a hair.. Tet out of It all he confessedly emerged with dignity, distinction and added prestige .as a man of breadth, balance and matured powers. This la the freely written verdict pot of his friends, not of his par tisans, but of all his political enemies except those In the dark corners of the Oregonlan building where new Ideas slowly find their way and induration have long since done their deadliest work.; ' I6 ' ' All of this Is said in the spirit of fair decency, with no. desire to underestimate Mr. Bryan In the past or to 'overestimate him . in the present. - The problem of his political salvation Is his alone and he must work it out. But whatever he may have done in the past and whatever he may have stood for, as standing American man of the present doubtless hold his own with the pale gray ass of the Ore gonian who so flippantly criticised him this morning. ' THE IMPOSSIBLE ACHIEVED. REW MEN who have lived on the ranges and notei the irrepressible conflict between the cattle and sheep men ever expected to live to see the day when the representative men of both these great Industries would be gathered, together, in national convention and working aide by side in the effort to solve he knotty com mon problems which confront them. . J; - r And yet this is precisely what has occurred in Portland. Self interest and mutually blending the business. Both need open ranges: to secure and main tain them they must unite the combined pressure of their forces upon congress. The open range secured, the prob lem then arises, of the best way to Manifestly . the poorest way is by quarreling with shot guns. This has been tried in the past and found wanting. Just as manifestly both Industries are here to stay. On federal ground they have equal rights. Then why not make the best of the situation, each accepting what it cannot remedy and making the most out of the situation as it finds It T The .sheep business has been enormously profitable In recent years. In few legitimate lines of human endeavor have fortunes been piled up more rapidly, In some sec tions the cattlemen have been forced to bow to the In evitable and confess defeat by moving they are all beginning to, strike the sensible middle course. Both Industries must be maintained. To maintain them it is necessary to come to some understanding that Is mutually satisfactory. When a ; question reaches thir point It is "within sight of settlement, for the first lesson LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE Mud and Darkness. Portland, Jan. 12.To the Editor of The Journal: I beg to encroach on a little apace in your paper in respect to the following grievance: At the foot of Seventeenth street, just at the railway crossing, is a big arc light,-which la supposed to be burning at night, but for about nine days it seems to be out of order and has not been I teheed. Further, the smaller light at Marim a wnari nas not oeen ngmea for about three weeks, because the bulb Is broken. woo, i asa, is reaponsioie ipr aucn neglect? The mud at the foot of Seven teenth street la of Such depth that ic la easy enough to be drowned, ' or rather, choked to death in It, and when we are deprived of the lights to guide, our steps, some accident is sure to happen. Ships have to pay heavy tonnage dues to lie at any of the wharfs, and we at least expect that the approaches to the wharfs have lights in working order to prevent accidents. A DISGUSTED SAILOR. KOBTVABT CBAFEX, A BABBOOSf. Chicago Correspondence New York World. .: ,': Among the double funerals was one from 'a small saloon In Center street. The dead were Mrs. Louise Fredericks, wife of the keeper, and her sister, Miss Vernieeh. ' 'Worn and haggard' from long days- end night of searching tor t.hei bodios fhl wife end ..her sister, Louie B-ri-joru-lis spent the morning as suming his kf4. mother and. his tliree "INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. which an American circumstances and But it is all an cannot help feeling , when the apparently impossible has been achieved in this direction that the dreams bj. the mlllenlum are not entirely beyond the bounds of humn realization. ..' , JOHN W. SPRINGER, president since its organization of the National Livestock association, la one of those' irrepressible men who is always doing unexpected LONG EARED , xxx things in unexpected ways and at unexpected times, jle iB"-tttever3r"emb6diffient"or restJeMXactlvity, and "carries out literally the motto; ."We never, sleep," which the asso ciation has stolen and adopted for convention' use; and during the sessldhs mlxer. buBlnees and play in such a way that one scarcely knows where the play begins and the business- ends. ';' Springer is a college graduate who won oratorical hon ors In his class. He is never quite so much at, home as when, in the'midst of a political campaign, he citn mount the head of a handy barrel and, arrayed in a long-tailed ulster and a white plug hat, soar on the pinions of his unfettered eloquence and arouse the enthusiastic plaudits of the electorate.1? He la a ready off-hand speaker, some what florid In his atyje, but always unmistakably It ,wher ever the gentle bowmen foregather. Mr. Springer got his' cattle experience In Texas. His firm owns a good,-slzed state there. His love of fine horses needed no cultiva tion, for it was there from the start. To see Springer expertly tooling a four-in-hand la not merely a revelation of these base a which demagogy Bryan, unsuccess of manly grace and those who would learn from past master of the art. In the last two years he has been devoting much of his time and talent to the banking and trust business. ' He has a big bank and trust company in Denver, but his heart is always with the cattle business, his first and only love. Perhaps to him more than any- other one man Is due the great importance of the association and very much of the good it has accomplished for the protection of the indus try. They wilt call him Governor Springer one of these days. ' - ' THE REAL FIGHTING SPIRIT IN JAPAN. CLARENCE BROWNELL, author of the "Heart of . Japan," has much' to say in favor of the Japanese army-In an article In the Buffalo Express, en titled "Hachiman is Getting Ready. X - He does not believe that Russia will by any means have a walkover in her fight with Japan. , Japan held for a long time the belief that her progress in the peaceful arts would win her consideration among nations! In their hearts the Japanese despise trade. The exigencies of the times compelled them to turn their at tention to commerce, and many of them still believe she must be great commercially : if she Is to; endure. But , and 'fosslllzatlon none of them doubt she is to escape annihilation. ' . - play and common The fact that her victorious war with China won her more respect and consideration from the West In half a year than all her peaceful Industry In half a century was not lost upon the Japanese. ; ' " ' ':" t r ' tv" When -her military and naval forces so speedily beat China to her knees she proceeded at once to double her forces. No one is allowed to escape military training In a square-toed, up moment he could Japan unless physically unfit,-more than this all are wil ling and anxious to undergo it. . The government drill is Imposed on all public schools and adopted by all private ones. -Little mites of boys delight to carry the flag and stoutly march for miles through the blazing sun fo prove their ability to serve Hachiman, the mikado Is directly descended, Is the, one god whom the whole Japanese people unite in honoring. , They may be Budhlsts, or followers of Confucius, but they all pay due respect to their war It Is both a military and religious ceremony and appeals to the whole people who are thoroughly In sympathy with Interests have done the sentiment that are worthy of undying love and honor. W. H. Galvanl's recently gives a fair idea of Russia's moral condition, and no one Is better informed on the subject. His statement convert it to profit. that It needs something new to stir the fighting spirit. "what there Is of It," In the Russian soldiery is worthy of attention. They may have the finest armament and the best officers in the world but ages of brutal oppression have not cultivated the On the other hand the spirit of the feudal retainer whose sword was his soul and his emporer his god. . It it this army spirit which Is His love for and willingness to fight away. But now soldier a formidable The Commercial ception which It last men. The entertainment was well conceived and carried out with a, brilliancy little children ,ln arranging for the re ception of the bodies. "We will bury them from the saloon," said Mr. Frederichs, "because it was here they used every day to come. We will put the caskets on the bar, and I do not know whether I ever will re sume business. Nothing seems worth while now.". Loving hands converted the barroom into a mortuary chapel. Long curtain and draperies of black were hung from the walls and knots of lavender ribbon were festooned from the ceiling and cor ners of the room to the bar. When the task was finished no Incongruity was apparent, STSBCBB" AS A MAH OP BtrSUTZSS. London Letter in Washington Post . So little has been written about the late Herbert Bpencer as a man of busi ness that it is not generally known how he called in hie, philosophy to aid him in making money out of his books. ! All his works were published on the com mission system, Mr. Spencer's publisher taking 10 per cent only "of the proceeds, the balance going to the author. Fur thermore, the - writer stereotyped ' his books at the outset, so as time passed he had tq print new editions only as they were needed, and so profited to an unusual extent on his comparatively small safes. - ' : .. Unlucky Foreigner. ; From the New York World, A Greek Immigrant sent a shirt to a St Louis laundry the other day and on examination a thousand-dollar bill was found sewed Into the garment. Mr. Folk Is how - after the immigrant,, although the latter indignantly denies belonging to the legislature. J O U RN A L, JNO. P. CARROLL Yamhill streets, Portland, y Oregon. PORTLAND learns is to accommodate himself to to make the best of them. . encouraging sign of the times and we THE COWMEN'S PRESIDENT. beauty, but a liberal education to now that she must also win battles if as soldiers. ' ; x; great war god from whom the present god. those who die in battle die nobly and able and timely article in The Journal "fighting spirit Jn the common soldiers." the Japanese soldier Is possessed of pride in his country and his' cheerful and die for it makes the .Japanese enemy. . club covered Itself with glory in the re evening tendered the visiting stock of effect that was beyond criticism. ABT XSSEBTXAX. QUALITY. From the New Tork Times. AH of the Qualities essential to oomne tence in the messenger of a cabinet offi cer are not set down in the school books nor recorded with the civil service com mission. . , The .-ante-room of the secretary of commerce ana laoor was niiea with anx ious waiters, all seeking an audience. The Impressive colored dignitary who presides emerged from Secretary Cortel you's office. With the air of a Chester field he said a few strictly confidential words of welcome and consolation to each of the weary callers, finally com ing to the man whose card had gone in last The dusky messenger escorted him into the corridor, led him through devi ous passages and finally brought, him to the secretary s office by another entrance. As he went he exclaimed: "You see, sah, all those people in there would feel bad if T was to take you in first. Now they feels relieved. They think there's one leas waiting to see the secretary. Now I brings you in this way, you see the secretary Just as well and gets away. My official position calls for lots of . Scheralnatlon that's the word, sah. schemlnation." Work fo Two Sjeleaeea. . From the New York Mail and Express. a xaie, proressor or chemistry is liv ing at the Waldorf-Astoria on $1 it day. It would probably take a professor of mathematics to figure out how much less man noming ne eats. - : - . " i 1 . - . X'X teteenuutly Bewarda. x -v .:'' From the Detroit News. Year by year the rewards of Ameri can statesmanship; increase; In 1004 the railroad'. passe will cover 8,000 more sines oi iraoaage man in iu9. " Germans Shouldering England W, E. Curtis' Cairo LeteY in the Chicago Record-Herald, t , 7: ( ' ; . . We came down from Rome to Naples, and there took i the ! splendid, great steamer Kiacbaou ' of the Hamburg- American line, which was crowded with passengers f 0 India, China and other countries of the far east, where the Ger mans nave commenced an active 4-om- merclat crusade. No nation la working so bard or so systematically to Increase its exports. The emperor and his gov ernment and the' parliament have joined with the commercial and industrial or ganizations and are sending subsidized steamships to every port carrying the products or the German manufactories. In every town of any importance from one end of the earth to the other you can find a German merchant; upon every steamer and every railway train a Ger man commercial traveler, and .the gov ernment has provided the means for Its manufacturers to reach their customers and deliver the 'goods. : . X " a f,;.;-,.v, cf ,This J particularly true In the. far east, where the Germans are pushlna- the English out of the trade. Twenty years agaJBnglishmen-nt rolled -everything. j.ney naa 10 establishments to one of any other nationality. Now the Germans surpass them in numbers. In capital and in enterprise. whrver vnn' n- In Smith America, tn China or in Africa. The German steamships to the east are win ning patronage away from the old con servative English lines by sending fre quent jsteamers with the best of accom modations and by their efforts to nlease. The English lines have been running on their reputations for years, but the Ger mans have compelled them to build new Ships and modernize the service. Half the passengers on the German ships are Englishmen, who give good reasons why they prefer them to their own. , - a rew years ago a German steamer was Seldom seen in the Sues canal. Last year they were second in-number among all the nations. The report of the com pany shows that 8,708 steamers passed through the canal in 1902, having a to tal tonnage of 11,848,418 tons. Of these 8,lt&. were English steamers of 6.772.(11 tons, while 480 were German steamers of 1,707,822 tons. You will notice that the German steamers must have aver aged very much larger than the English, because the tonnage is out of proportion to the number, and that Illustrates the condition of the trade. The Klachaou is named after what we may call the German province In China. a city in Shantung, which the kaiser seised because of the murder of two Jes uit missionaries who had been expelled from Germany only a few months, before. They are working slowly but surely to Germanise the provinces, so surely that in a rew years you will hear of a repeti tion of the recent experiences with Man churia, except that Germany instead of Russia will be filling the title role. That la the reason why Germany has not taken part In the dispute. She is strict ly neutral, but her silence is very signifi cant and her sympathies are on the Rus sian side because the occupation of a Chinese province by a European power w an important precedent for her. But I will tell you more about that when I get to China. Fashionable lamUles are gradually turning ocean voyages Into social fes tivities and millinery shows. People used to wear their old clothes when they went to sea and took as few with them as possible,' Now they dress as much on smpnoara aa they ao at a. house party and show off all their new clothes on the deck regardless of the damage - a nw btb. bbtah. Bis Trip Baa Developed Bew Traits of ' 'Dignity. ' From the Kansas City Star. ' The Mr. Bryan! who sailed from Eng land for New York Is a decidedly differ ent person in the esllaiatloa of many people from the man who left the United States on November 11. There have been no spectacular incidents connected with his trip abroad. He has made no startling declarations. But his Journey has revealed qualities of character which the publlo had not supposed him to pos sess, v..;..-.: - --r:K yr v. Perhaps the most strikingly aaant fested of these traits was his adapta bility, his good sense and dignity to new conditions. It had been a general im pression in the United States (hat Mr. Bryan was distinguished by a certain rigid narrowness which would hinder, if it did not permit his mental growth. It was assumed that he could hardly as sociate on friendly terms with men of opposing views, and that he was largely cut off from progress by his belief in the depravity of the leaders who com bated him. His partisanship had always been so aggressive that it had been sup posed, too, that he could never realise the primary claims of his Americanism. It is. on these points that his stay in Europe has caused a revision of opin ion. He sat at table with some of the most eminent men of England and the continent He showed no aversion to ezpandlng his own horizon by meeting them. WhenMie observed that his style of dress made him conspicuous he al tered It to conform to the requirements of the European standard. He made a handsome publlo acknowledgement of the fine qualities snd sturdy Americanism of the Republican diplomats whom he met. and his speech before the American chamber of commerce In Berlin -showed perfect taste and a statesmanlike atti tude of mind. The strong impression Which his address made upon the critical German press was a deserved recogni tion of a striking personality. WHY HE DID BOX OUT OB. O. S. Marden in Suocess. He had low Ideals. He did not dare to take chances. -He had too many irons in the fire. " He' tried to give his relatives a chance. He was never a whole man at any thing. : He thought a good business should run Itself. - He was afraid to burn the brfdges behind him. , His rude manners- drove customers from his store. - He loved his pipe and a story better than his work. He could not concentrate all his pow ers on his task. . . He let gruff. Indifferent clerks drive away his business. He trusted Incompetent friends with responsible positions." He would not change fairly good meth ods for better ones. He thought he knew-all there was to know about his business. . He tried to economise by cutting down his advertising appropriation. He was a good,' honest man, but did not do business in a business way. , ' Reflections of a Bachelor. From the New York Press! '. The only people who don't break good resolutions are those who never make them.. ' ' : ; ' i,- - ''-.. .-.;'-.' Wonder how much a man has to allow- hle'wlfe to dress in the South Sea isl ands, where they dont. ' , It la perfectly useless for a eirl to take' a muff when she goes riding, for she can't use it when she drives, andlf he needed it It -would be ton ridiculous to put a muff around her .WaiaU ..X...:-J Out of World's Commerce from dampness, r They come to dinner in full dress also, with low neoks and bare arms and diamonds and bracelets until the dining room On a big-steamer nowadays is as gay as a banquet hall. ine jungiisn are responsiDie zor tnis ri. dloulous custom, which was originally Intended to relieve the monotony of long voyages, but has gradually spread until every steamship line is Infected with the vanity. But the Idea of wearing jewelry on shipboard . Is even worse. That is English, v too, for it la the rWhat's-Her-Name and Lady Light head who lie around In their, deck chairs wearing all .their gold and silver and precious' stones like the women of a savage race. At first ; I thought they were "the wives and daughters of Chi cago, pork packers, because they are the only -people who do such vulgar things in the novels of English society, and it is quite a shock to an American to dis cover that the British nobility are rob bing us or a notoriety we never de served, .'--.,' i . And-the, same women sit . around on deck-after-dinner-and"mokff"cigarette. it 1 considered smart for them to dc so. I have seen a good many wives and daughters of Chicago pork packers in different parts of the world, but I have never known them to make such vulgar displays or be guilty of such rudeness as is frequneUy .. shown by Enxllsh women wiyi long titles. . . Port Said Is a strictly modern towa at the mouth of the Sues cabal, of mush room growth, very wicked, and peopled with the representatives of every race on earth. . Like Colon and Panama. Singapore, ; Honkgong and other ports where the ships of all nations trade, it catches human driftwood. Down at Puenta Arenas, In the Straits of Magel lan, I was once rowed to shore In a boat with eight oarsmen, and each of them belonged to a different race. In Port Said Arabs predominate, but the busi ness signs upon the business streets are a good 'index of; the inhabitants, Everything is wety managed. The town Is under English control, and notwith standing the desperate character of the inhabitants, it is very orderly. The police are native " Arabs wearing uni forms similar to those of the 'Bobbles" of London, and they conduct them selves with great dignity and airs of Importance. When the steamer drops I its anchor off the eenter of the town it is immediately surrounded by a large fleet of rowboats, but none of them at-1 tempts to approach the gangway until a ! signal is given by the policeman in charge. Then the boatmen climb up the stairs over each other's shoulders like i so many monkeys, clamoring for pat ronage, which seems to be an unneces sary waste of energy, because all the boats belong to the ..same . company. which pays for the privilege of landing passengers and Is allowed to charge only a very small fee. Strangers are well taken care of. All they have to do Is to turn their luggage over to the runner from the hotel they intend to stop at In Cairo, and he will' put them aboard a tram on the baby railroad that runs across the desert and see them safely started upon their Journey. There is a custom-house, of course but it gives travelers very little trouble. The in spectors take your name and nationality and some other Information for the sta tistical report; they ask if you have any. cigars or spirits, and accept your word for it, unless your bihavtor is sus picious, then they trouble you to-onen your trunk. , A BOOSBTXST WAS BTOBT. : Jacob A Rtls In his "Theodore Roose velt the Citizen," how running serially In The Outlook, tells this anecdote of Colonel Roosevelt's .war experience: He had a man in his regiment, a child of the frontier, in whom dwelt the soul of a soldier in war, not in peace. By no process of reasoning or discipline could he be persuaded to obey thecamp regulations, while the regiment lay at San Antonio, and at last he was court martialed, sentenced to six months' Im prisonment technical, sentence, for there was no Jail to put htm in. The prison was another rough rider follow ing him around with a rifle to keep him in bounds. Then came the call to Cuba, and the colonel planned to leave him be hind as useless baggage. When the man heard of it his soul was stirred to its depths. He came and pleaded as a child to be taken along. He would al ways be good; never again could he show up in Kansas if the regiment went to the war without' him. At eight of his real agony Mr. Roosevelt's heart re lented. . "All right," he said. "You deserve to be shot as much as anybody, You shall go." And he went flowing over with gratitude, to prove himself In the field as good a man as his prison of yore who fought beside him. L . .- Then came the mustering out When the last man was checked off and ac counted for, the war department of ficial, quartermaster or general or some thing, fumbled with his papers. "Where is the prisoner T" he asked. "The prisoner V echoed Colonel Roose velt: "what prlsonerr "Why, the man who got six months at a court-martial." "Oh. hei He is all right I remitted his sentence." The official looked the colonel 'over curiously, "You remitted his sentence." he said. "Sentenced by a court-martial, approved by the commanding general, you remit ted his sentence. Well, you've got nerve." t ' TATT IB VBBrXCT KXAX.TK. . Manila .Correspondence In Collier's ' Weekly. -The Idea seems . to prevail In the United States that Governor Taft is going home because of ill health. . This Is far from the truth. At one time he was the victim of diseases to which all are subject In the tropics, but today he enjoys one might almost say perfect health, due. largely, to his careful habits and regular exercise. He Is deeply in. terested In the Philippines and the Filipinos, and would have liked to re main until certain problems were nearer a solution. ., There. Is a - more personal reason, too. - Here the government pro vides him with a palace. In Washing ton he will receive less than a third of the salary which was his here, and. will have to pay house rent. He has saved nothing during his stay, and being a man of only moderate means, he is largely dependent upon his salary for the support of himself and family. ; : Diaat Have Blther. y.i : v -' 1 ' From the New York Times. Mayor McClellan is Invariably cbur teoue to office-seekers, but frequently his patience is tried to an extent that make life aburden. When one particularly persistent fellow approached him for the twentieth time, Colonel McClellan said: vi !..;..,,.,.: ,:t "Whenever I see you I, think of the old adage. . 'To whom Providence gives an office he gives en understanding.'" .. - "But I have 110 office," gasped the ap plirnnt. . ' ' X ' . the proverb is apropos. , any watf."1 .. ... , How Some Precious Manuscripts Were Saved to the World From the London Mall. A country which has supported for a iwmuuii . coauy commission to se cure for the state printed copies of thou sands of hlstorle manuscripts is not like ly to let go the original copy of "Para dise Lost,' and we, may be sure that long before the sale announced for next spring the Milton manuscript will rest in the national treasure house, side by aide with the seared and yellow copy of Mag na Cbarta. . ' . That shriveled parchment the charter Of English freedom, was saved, it Is said, by the veriest chance from the scissors of a, merciless tailor. ; Struck by the great seals attached to a piece of paper the tailor was cutting -up, Slf Robert Cotton stopped the man and gave him four pence for the document he would, nave destroyed, it is now in the British museum, lined and mounted and In a glass case, the seal a shapeless mass of wax, and the characters quite Illeg ible. y, ; . , , ' . . m Four-pence " will; not' buy "Paradise Lost"-andthe passing of this interest ing document into the possession of the state war be a much more formal and unromantio transaction, la it too much to suppose that the secretary of the his toric manuscripts comihission will quiet ly send a check one morning to Messrs. Sotheby and hand the manuscript to sir Edward Thomoson at nightt . v The commission, if we are to believe an earl, has done much more daring things. The fourth Earl of Ashburnham had no great love ior it "You are here, sir, .under false pretenses," he shouted to sir George Dasent when the knight, at the eatl's Invitation, arrived, at Ash burnhanv "I have discovered that you are a member, sir, of that most disrep utable society called the historic manu scripts commission; ttley are a society or rumens, sir." "Surely," exclaimed Sir George, "a great many eminent persona belong to the commission Lord Salisbury, for In stance, Js not a ruffian." "Yes, sir. he is a ruffian, when actlna- for that society " the angry earl' burst out, "and you, sir, are a ruffian, too you tamper with title deeds, sir!" The old lady who received letters from Carlyle would have agreed with the fourth earl. When Froude's "Carlyle" appeared she opened her chest, filled with letters from the great men of her day, and took out a bundle. "They were written to me," she burst out as she flung them into the fire, "not to the pub lie," end when the children ran in to say that the chimney was on fire all that she would say was, "Never ; mind," and the papers went on burning. There was a burning of manuscripts much less deliberate and much more se rious in which the old lady's correspond ent was concerned, f Can we ever forget once we nave read it that page in Car. lyle's journaljn which the great man tells us how, on march 6, 183B, John Btuart Mill rapped. at the door at tea timet ' "He entered pale " Carlyle wrote down the next day, "unable to speak, gasped out to my wife to go down and speak with Mrs. Taylor, snd came forward (led by my hand and astonished looks), the very picture of desperation. "After various Inarticulate and articu late utterances to merely the same effect, ne imormee me that my first volume (left out by him in too careless a man ner, after or while reading it), was, ex-, vapi tuur or nvm unm 01 leaves, irrevo cably annihilated!" "It la gone!" Car lyle wrote again: "The whole world and myself backed by it could not bring that back, nay, the old spirit too, Is fled. I find it took five months of stead fast occasionally excessive and always sickly and painful toil." MU1, he added, "very Injudiciously" stayed with us till late," and left in a relapsed and pitiable State.- , : is Though It IS not generally known, an other manuscript as famous as Carlyle's was at one time In peril of a similar OATB B,000,000 AWAY. Captain Fabst Distributed That Bum to Hla Family oa Christmas. ; Milwaukee' Correspondence N. Y. Sun. Capt Frederick Fabst whose funeral was held recently, made on Christmas some special gifts to every member of his family, the aggregate of which Is said by close friends to represent some 15,000,000. At that time Captain Pabsc fully realized that his -illness was of a fatal character and that - the end was not far Off. To his wife and each of his four children he handed stock certifi cates and deeds representing something over 21,000,000 In each case. . Notwithstanding this distribution of wealth, the will of Captain Pabst will dispose f large additional Mounts. It Is estimated by friends that his entire wealthy will amount to about 110,000,000. When, back in the fifties, Captain Pabst was working as. a deckhand on a lake steamer, he gained .notice in this way: E. B. Ward was one of the pas sengers. He was the owner Of the line, and when the boat .reached Milwaukee he started down the stairs for the pur pose of going ashore. He was stopped at the foot of the stairs by Pabst who demanded his ticket "Say, my boy, I will give you a quar ter to let me off." "Nein; I vant der ticket." "Here Is 50 cents." -: "Nein: der ticket" "I will give you tl, all the money I hav." f "Nein; . you shust give me der ticket, and den you go der shore oudt." Mr. Ward turned back,, met the clerk In the cabin and inquired: "Who is that Dutch boy you have on board T" " ' - . "That Dutch boyt Why, that's Unser Fritz.' " : "Just; raise his wages f 10 a month," Was Mr. Ward's reply DXOBX7XXD TO TKB LAST. From the New York WwM - - 1 Talk with a Democrat ud my wav." said Hugo Av Gllmartin, the story-teller rrom Detroit, at one of the Washington hotels, "and - he will - constantly ..come harping back on one thing the tariff. "Reminds me of the time I was in a ...... , n 1 ... . 1 . 1 iiuiei up iu Duguuiw, . iiicKiriuai com pany, had gone on the rocks, and . the leading man had been living a precarious life at this hotel, waiting for remit tances. One morning he rang the bell in his room for halt an hour. Nobody answered. Then he went out in the hall, leaned over the railing and called: " 'Boy! Oh, boy! ' f What is itr snarled' a bell boy" from the lobby beneath. .; . I " 'Have you seen anything of my laun dry? .- - .,,-j.i , . - "Aw, gwn! said the boy. You ain't had but one shirt since you've been here.' " That said the actor, with . great dignity, 'is the one to which I refer. Sverythisg on Bine Monday. " " : From' the Now' York Telegram. X Christmas day on Friday and New Year's day on Friday, too. 1 Never mind, next year Washington's birthday, Deco ration day, the Fourth of July and La bor day all fall on Monday, and we'll tlnleili out the week for each. -, - - - fata. Lady Simeon since Tennyson's death has generously presented to his son the "original manuscript of "in Memoriam," of which she had posses sion during the poet's life. Fifty years ' ago the manuscript was nearly lost in a ; London lodging, and there is somewhere X an interesting letter from Tennyson, iu" which, writing to Coventry Patmore, he said: ' "I went up to my room yesterday : to get my book of elegies; you know what I mean, a long, butcher-ledger-like -book. I was going to read one or two to an artist here; I could not find It. I have some obscure remembrance of hav- : ing lent it to you. If so, all Is well; if not, will you go to my old chambers and Institute a vigorous Inquiry?" Two of three .weeks had passed 'since . Tennyson changed his lodgings in Hamp-i' Stead road, : and the landlady, said no, such book had been left But Patmore, Insisting on looking himself, found tho manuscript iriv a cupboard where Ten- , nyson had kept his provisions.' , - Once before Tennyson had lost a man ; u'scriptwhich-'tie-ever-recoTered-.-He-ri lost the first manuscript or rroema, Chiefly Lyrical,", out of his great coat pocket One night while returning home from a neighboring town, and sat down with a courage worthy of Carlyle and rewrote the poems from beginning to end. , "Milton's "Commonplace Book" was lost for 800 years, and was only found and publish Vi in 1874. But for an ac-. eident his "Comus" might have been lost to the world, as it narrowly escaped be-. ing bricked up - with the "Brldgewater Papers," which had all perished when found. .' t The "Creevey Papers,", which all the world has been' reading of late, lay for AO years undiscovered, and we have had in the last. few. years a remarkable ex ample of how, even In these days, mo mentuous manuscripts may lie hidden and ufiiuspected- beyond the ' gaze of man. The oldest code of laws In the world, promulgated by a king of Baby. Ion 42 centuries ago, was found, thanks to the enterprise of the French govern ment only last year, and though this an cient manuscript is written in atone, it is an amazing thing that we now can read, in King Hammurabi's own words. 4,814 lines of the statutes he .enacted for bis people more than 2,000 years be fore Christ. - - ; '-v. ; There is now In St Petersburg the old est known Manuscript of the New Testa ment in Greek, saved from destruction by the merest chance 0 years ago. Crossing the hall of a convent at the root or mount Binai, constantme Tison endorf saw a basket full of parchment leaves on their way to be burned. Two baskets had already gone, he was told. and all that he could secure for himself was a small bundle of odd leaves. But the monks, now interested in the "waste paper," saved the rest from the flTe, and nine years after, ,on a return visit to the convent, Tlschendorf found that the steward had, wrapped in a red cloth, "a bulky kind of volume," which proved to be the whole of the New Testament, with parts hitherto unknown, and parts of the old, which had long been sought. He begged the volume for the czar,, and today it lies, well preserved In. spite of its 1,800 years of age, among the treas ures of the Russian capital. . . The "Stuart Papers," one of the most precious possessions of King . Edward, were found lying in a garret by an out law, upon whose head the British gov ernment -had set ' a price, who bought them for a paltry sum as a heap of tradesmen's bills, and. afterward ended a miserable life by strangling himself. Dante Gabriel Rossettt, - the poet, on his wife's death. Placed the manuscrint of "The Blessed Damosel" in her coffin and burled it with her. It was his only copy,, and the poem was then unprlnted. And unprlnted it would have remal! ri had not hla friends Induced the poet to regain possession of the poem and give it'to the world. ,' . Advice to the Lovelorn . BY BEATRICE r AIM AX Dear Miss Fairfax: About three years ago I arrived In New York, leav ing England, and while in this city I became acquainted with a, young Scotch man. He hai been calling on me for Over a year and a half, so now he has ssked me to marry him. X am a little undecided for this reason: I am 22, years old and he Is only SO, Do you think there is too much difference in age? And if a woman Is too old to marry at this age 82t -" ' LIVERPOOL, ENG. Plenty Of mmtn mm i there is not very much difference In ...jf your ages. If you are wise you will um&B a. nice norae tor yourself if you care for him. Every woman is better mar- rled. ,- .'..(.-.......-".., - Dear Miss Fairfaxi I am a young girl 19 years old and very much In love with a young man whose mother ob jects to him going with me. : Do you think it Is right for me to go with him, as it causes much trouble for hlra In his hornet Kindly advise me what to do. h. B. I think the young man is the one to decide that question. It seems too bad .ytt -e placed in that position. WJlat vBOn has his mother for not liking you? You should find out if it is a good one.'"' fax: A gentleman ' called to see me regularly three times a week for about a year. One evening he said he couldn't call the next Wednesday. He gave no reason, but said he would call Friday, , However, he did not call, and when we met he was a ,endl5rt ver, but never men tioned why he did not call. As he made the engagement 1 thought It was his place to tell me. Kindly tell me if it was. Since I have met him at a dance. refused. If he should ask to call again . me iq let ijilmT " . i- ."'. L R, F ''' It certainly was hls place to apologise, - with hlmi If he asks to call you had better tell him Just why you do not want him to and hav. an eplanat?on. J,r I OW XABY APPXiBBf- London Cor. New York Times. If puzzles are getting scare in New Tork, poeslbly some of the expert guew ke to, try at the followfng" Three-boys go gathering apples? They ?nHV!m8 Ute at nlht with : a bagful and after agreeing to divide It equally wake? 5lnf t!,,e n,ht oh" S "hem wakes up, and. feeling hungry, goes to the bag. divides the apples lnt three equal portions, and finds there is ne .7 "c" 10 bed. Later on the second boy' also wakes upland goes through ; i slm(W procedure, si fi" d?,? lh,ihlM Afterward, both " them, like the first throwing away an boys divldo the remainder of thaapplrs equally, and again find one over which they throw away. Hgw may were there originally? ..- , vv ' " s 1 It i