to those in doubt where their sympathies should fall in any large industrial disturbance. We need never stint our admiration of honest workers striving to better themselves. To seek to make labor valuable, or to demand as high a price for it as can be got, is both lawful and commendable. Moreover, when they make sacrifices for one another, or in behalf of their whole group, they deserve praise and encouragement; if they are clearly fighting against injustice or oppression, they may rightfully appeal for aid as well as applause. But they must not in the act create other classes more in need of sympathy than themselves. They must not go about to rob even their employers of freedom and self-respect. They cannot without a protest be permitted to dictate terms of employment so onerous to capital that it will take to itself wings and leave even less work to be divided among willing and empty hands. Nor must they, in forbidding others to labor, turn oppressors and monopolists themselves. When a strike goes such lengths as to be a blow at industrial freedom and the rights of human nature itself, sympathy with it is as much misplaced as it would be with any other form of social mischief or personal cruelty. With every aspiration of organized labor we are bound to sympathize except its aspiration to become a tyrant. Sympathy that shuts its eyes to clear distinctions of law and morals may argue a kind heart, but is utterly inconsistent with either straight thinking or a firm and convinced sense of public duty. It must not be forgotten that the line of defense against anarchy is the right to work for wages upon which employer and workman are agreed, and that the moment our sympathy crosses this line it becomes the insidious teacher of lawlessness and injustice. Procedure based on any other principle is merely playing with fire. NO BACKWARD STEP IN CONSERVATION! corded our high opinion of Mr. Pinchot as an administrative officer and of his power of organizing public sentiment in support of a movement which, rightly interpreted, is in the interest of the whole people. His usefulness to that cause is by no means at an end, though we cannot but feel that he could better have served it by a line of public conduct which would have admitted of his continuance in his influential office. In political action Mr. Pinchot has not been fortunate. He carried the doctrine of loose-construction to the limits of absurdity in his address in the West advocating that laws shall be interpreted in the interests of the people-a vague program which would open a door on Chaos. had already thrown political tubs to a whale, in conceding to opponents of his larger conservation policy two important points: first, by his determinative support of the scheme for the dismemberment of the Yosemite Park-a scheme which its leading advocates acknowledged before a Senate Committee to be unnecessary, and which would be the initial step to the relinquishment of all that has been done to save our great scenery from the ravages of commercialism; second, by his effort to prove that a lumber tariff would protect American forests from destruction,- both of these measures being distinctly anticonservative. It is much to be regretted that he has shown no sympathy with those disinterested and influential men and bodies throughout the country who are striving to conserve our natural beauty, and especially that he has failed to see the pressing importance of setting on foot through the White House Conferences some plan (other than that of the desirable White Mountains and Appalachian Park) for a permanent coöperation between the States and the Nation to save the mountain forests of the East, now being depleted at an alarming rate. It has been said of John Quincy Adams that he regarded himself less as a person than as a cause which he had espoused. IN the voluntary retirement of Mr. Gif. There is a sense in which to say this of a ford Pinchot as States Forester -for his insubordination to the President showed that he was "riding for a fall"the ablest advocate of conservation transfers his activity from an official to a private sphere. We have several times re man is to compliment him, but the cause of conservation (largely by Mr. Pinchot's admirable efforts, but by no means wholly or primarily) has grown to proportions which are not to be identified with the political or personal fortunes of any man. R k He has done important things, for which he deserves honor, and it is a pity that he has chosen to retire from his great opportunities of further official usefulness. The effort in certain quarters to give the impression that the President was lukewarm toward Conservation has been dispelled by his appointment of Mr. Graves, a friend of Mr. Pinchot, as Forester, and by his downright and practical message to Congress on that subject. The cause, with its colossal problems, must not be allowed to become a foot-ball of factional or personal ambitions; it needs all the friends it can win, of all shades of party or partizanship, particularly in Congress, to which now falls the great responsibility of enacting into law the unmistakable demands of public sentiment. Much of this work is urgent. Legal safeguards should be established to prevent such wrongs as the endeavor to take up coal lands worth $2,000,000,000 by one person, by means of proxies; the use of water-power should be so defined and regulated as to preserve the rights of the people without impairing the normal development of the West; the Reclamation Service, which is making the desert blossom as the rose, should be carefully fostered and protected against political and private greed; the whole system of river and harbor development should be placed on a business instead of a political basis; and, last but not least, let us repeat it, the President, Congress, and the Governors and Legislatures of the States should address themselves at once to the need, so often set forth in these columns, of a coöperative plan to save from destruction the forests of the upper reaches of the whole Appalachian Range. the first fruits of his great achievement. The meanness, as well as the enormity, of the fraudulent claim was as inconceivable as it was unparalleled, and many who were loath to give it full credence felt that it was only fair to reserve judgment. Commander Peary would himself admit that it was not to be expected that the prior claim, so confidently, blandly, and at first plausibly presented, should be dismissed without scrutiny. He, least of all, would not have appealed to Hume's argument against miracles (satirized in Archbishop Whately's "Historic Doubts Concerning Napoleon")-namely, that it is less easy to believe that the wonderful thing has occurred than to believe that every one who has testified to it was either self-deceived or an impostor. The circumstances were such as to suggest an arrest of judgment until the data could be pronounced upon by competent scientific authorities. In the absence of such a verdict, partizanship had free rein and revealed once more the hectic and over-sentimental character of the popular mind in its first expression; and this, independent of the view taken. It requires a long time to realize that in such affairs one man's opinion is not so good as another's, and as impulsive Americans who, after all, love justice and fair-dealing, we may well take this to heart. While the controversy was pending, the question of fact was obscured in many minds by the bluff manner in which Commander Peary, knowing more than we of his antagonist, gave form to his warning cry of "Stop thief!" To the heroic explorer, who, after years of hardship crowned at last with success, returned to civilization only to find that another had stolen his laurels, it was not a time for drawing-room courtesies. Things must be seen in proportion: the heroism of a Hobson cannot be erased by his submission to a raid of sentimentality (for which, moreover, he was not originally responsible); the great services to his country of a Dewey cannot be obscured by an error of taste; nor those of a Sampson by a bit of ebullient flippancy in a hasty despatch which he did not write and may never have scrutinized. It is not too much to say that what was at first decried as angry disappointment in Commander Peary will appear rather as intelligent indignation on the page of history, where his name will stand forever. In Charles Lamb's essay on "Popular Fallacies" may be found this passage, not inappropriate to the polar controversy: VII. OF TWO DISPUTANTS, THE WARMEST IS GENERALLY IN THE WRONG Our experience would lead us to quite an opposite conclusion. Temper, indeed, is no test of truth; but warmth and earnestness are a proof at least of a man's own conviction of the rectitude of that which he maintains. Coolness is as often the result of an unprincipled indifference to truth or falsehood as of a sober confidence in a man's own side in a dispute. Nothing is more insulting sometimes than the appearance of this philosophic temper. There is little Titubus, the stammering law-stationer in Lincoln's Inn-we have seldom known this shrewd little fellow engaged in an argument where we were not convinced he had the best of it, if his tongue would but fairly have seconded him. When he has been spluttering excellent broken sense for an hour together, writhing and labouring to be delivered of the point of dispute the very gist of the controversy knocking at his teeth, which like some obstinate iron-grating still Whistler's First Published Drawing HE lithograph reproduced on page 759, Tand having the inscription "Designed by Cadet Whistler," is, we believe, the first published drawing by that painter. While not unknown to collectors, it may be classed as a rare print, and so far as we can ascertain it has not been reproduced heretofore. in any publication or been referred to by the painter or his biographers. Mention of it, however, is made in a forthcoming catalogue of his work. It was evidently drawn while Whistler was at West Point in 1852. Attention is called to the decorative border, which shows that he early had in mind the butterfly, adopted later as his symbol. In the face on the right is seen or fancied a resemblance to Whistler as a young man. THE MOCKING-BIRD DE mockin'-bird sings in de live-oak shade, OLD DR. DRAKE OLE Dr. Drake wid 'is college waddle But he ain't by 'isself in dat, in dat- THE SLIPPERY EEL BRER EEL got a mighty jewbious name, But maybe he ain't so much to blame; He could n't squirm out ef he nuver ventured in, An' he resks his all when he resks his skin. But he ain't by 'isself in dat, in datBut he ain't by 'isself in dat! MR. CRAWFISH MR. CRAWFISH th'ows a racklass bluff, But he ain't by 'isself in dat, in dat- MR. FLEA Look out for Mr. Po'-trash Flea! An' he ain't by 'isself in dat, in dat- MR. HEN-ROOST MAN MR. HEN-ROOST MAN he 'll preach about Paul, An' James an' John, an' Herod, an' all, An' he ain't by 'isself in dat, in dat- JUDGE OWL JEDGE OWL 's so pompious on 'is limb, You'd s'pose dey was nobody roun' but him; He's afeard ef he was too polite THE FIREFLY MR. LIGHTNIN'-BUG is a gay young spark, "I COULD stand de hook," says de angle- "An' a lily-brook would n't make me squirm, Ruth McEnery Stuart. The Lovers' Baedeker; or, Arcady Topography: Over the hills and far away lies Arcady, the Mecca of all lovers, and the place where journeys end. Situated on a large tract of enchanted ground in the Country of Agapemone, Arcady is a beautiful and interesting place, and should be visited by every tourist who is making the grand tour of life. Situation: Arcady is bounded on the north by the Land of Heart's Desire, from which it is separated by the Happy Valley. On the east, by the Gulf of Time, across which dimly may be seen, in the distance, the Garden of Eden. To the south lies Utopia, and along the western shore murmur the lapping wavelets of the Sea of Dreams, whose wonderful phenomenon of mirage often deceives even an experienced traveler. Season: Spring and early summer are the best seasons for the intending visitor, though lovelorn swains and some poets often prefer the melancholy days of autumn. Language: For those who wish to derive the greatest possible pleasure from a visit to Arcady, some acquaintance with the language of love is indispensable. This can best be acquired by a careful study of poetry and romantic novels, and about four hours' practice every day. ("The Lovers' PhraseBook" is a useful little treatise, as it gives four thousand terms of endearment, alphabetically arranged, and is small enough to be carried in the pocket, for ready reference in case of love at first sight.) Expenses: The cost of a visit to Arcady depends largely on the habits and tastes of the traveler. If he indulge in expensive bouquets or other gifts, high-priced theaters and restaurants, and up-to-date motor-tours, he must be prepared to spend his last cent or more. But if he be of frugal or thrifty |